Elon Musk a genius or a thief in disguise?

[letsrock]

In portraying the currents of the mainstream media empire in the West, Elon Musk is an "amazing genius" who, through his astonishing genius, ambition, and recklessness, ruthlessly enters the realm of advanced technology, and at this relatively young age, he is a powerful competitor to institutions such as the Pentagon and NASA. In a way, he is a new version of the idols and goddesses of the bold new world, including Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
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Even the work of this mythical illustration has reached a point where in spam called the article, God is considered a creature like Elon Musk!
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'Scientists reveal that God's face looks like Elon Musk!'

But is Elon Musk really a "genius" at the level that is being publicized about him?
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He was born in 1971 in South Africa. He grew up in a wealthy family. His family owned an emerald mine. "His father, Errol Musk, said in an interview:

"We were very rich. Sometimes we had so much money that we could not even go near the safe."

As a teenager, he apparently went to jewelry stores with pockets full of emeralds belonging to his father, selling them and pocketing his money.
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However, in order to present his self-made manifestations, Elon claimed that after college, he owed $ 100,000 in college debt and that he could not even afford a second-hand computer.

But the point is, he received a full scholarship while studying for a bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Apart from that, during his university years, he bought a 10-bedroom house with one of his university students, Adeo Ressi, and turned it into a nightclub. [1]
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In media advertising, Elon Musk is said to have an IQ of "155". It is not clear under which test this number was obtained. But it is clear that when he entered Stanford University for a doctorate in physics, he lasted only two days and then dropped out. [2]

Elon Musk registered his first company, ZIP2, with his brother Kimbal in 1995 in Palo Alto, California. He received tens of thousands of dollars from his parents to start the company, which worked to create a gateway to online commercials (something known in the United States as Yellow Pages and in our own country inspired by projects like Book One). In addition, their father's business partner, Greg Curry, agreed to find a business partner for the project. Interestingly, today Elon Musk has been described as a programming genius since he was a teenager, while all his coding for ZIP2 was wrong and they had to hire a few professional programmers to rewrite the codes. [3]
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The webpage of Zip2

In 1999, the two managed to persuade CC to buy zip2 from them to expand their search engine (AltaVista). Your zipper sold for $ 307 million, and Elon and his brother grossed $ 35 million. Interestingly, the acquisition of the company became a major loss for CC executives, who were unable to make any profit from the deal and were eventually forced to liquidate it. [4] Elon Musk, of course, made a huge profit from the deal, giving himself a $ 1 million prize of $ 22 million and buying a super-expensive McLaren F1. He did not insure the car and almost destroyed it in an accident. All these so-called luxury toys helped make his brand more famous.

In December 1999, after selling zip2, Elon Mask and three others (Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho) established an online bank called X.COM. However, just five months after the company took office, Fricker arranged for the mask to be removed from the company's policy and for Fricker to take over as CEO. In March 2000, X.com was purchased by its competitor, Confinity, and the new company was renamed to X.com.
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The crucial point is that in today's media advertising, "PayPal" is introduced as a masterpiece and a turning point in his innovations and the beginning of his leapfrogging process. However, PayPal was originally invented by Max Levchin and Peter Thiel, the founders of Confiniti in 1998, before merging with X.com, and Mask had no role in its design! [5]
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Max Levchin and Peter Thiel inventors of PayPal

For the past few months, Musk has been involved in the merger of X.com and Confiniti, despite having the largest number of shares and becoming the CEO, has been embroiled in a power struggle with other major shareholders and executives. Thus, in September 2000, while on a honeymoon trip to Australia, he was fired by the board of directors and effectively fired from the management of the company, and was replaced by Peter Thiel, co-designer of PayPal with Lucien. [6] It was not until June 2001 that the company changed its name from X.com (Under Musk's pressure) to PayPal. [7]
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Interestingly, an agreement was signed for Elon Mask to resign from X.com, which, in order to prevent his reputation from being damaged, was published everywhere on the company's websites as one of the "founders" of the old and new X.com and its related companies. The same agreement later allowed Elon Musk to introduce himself everywhere as the founder of PayPal, even though he had no role in designing the electronic transaction system.
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Clause of the resignation agreement between Musk and PayPal executives

Under Peter Thiel, PayPal grew in value, eventually selling the company to eBay for $ 1.5 billion. Elon Musk's share of the deal was $ 180 million. With this money, he was able to invest in Tesla, SpaceX and the failed and bankrupt company Solar City. Contrary to all the propaganda and myths and, of course, his own false claims, Elon Musk is not the founder of Tesla. Tesla was founded in 2003 by Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard. [8]
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Mask invested about $ 30 million in Tesla with the proceeds from the PayPal deal, and with that capital he became chairman of the company. When the New York Times wrote about Tesla's founding in an article in 2006, it made no mention of Elon Musk. The matter was very serious for Musk, who complained in an email to Martin Eberhard, co-founder and original inventor of Tesla. In order to win the heart of the main investor, Eberhard fired the CEO and replaced him with Musk. But Musk instead began a conspiracy and coup against Eberhard, and in 2007, he ousted the founder. In 2009, Eberhard filed a lawsuit against Musk, accusing him of plotting to oust him from the company he had founded. In Eberhard's complaint, Elon Musk is accused of manipulating all the company's archival information in order to "rewrite" the company's history, to establish himself as the main founder and creator of the Tesla brand! [10] [11]
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About the adventures of Elon Musk with the space company "SpaceX", we also see extremely foolish stories that are published by the media that promotes the "Elon Musk" brand. That one day he visits a NASA website and sees that there are no plans to travel to Mars. Then he goes to Russia to buy a cheap rocket, but he does not find it, and then he makes a vow to build a rocket himself and starts reading books, and so on.

SpaceX and the "Mars Colonization" project are more like Disney Disney stories, and they's too slow to seduce the general public! Someone who has not had a single day of education or even practical work in the field of rocket and aerospace equipment, suddenly becomes a space technology giant and a partner and even a competitor of NASA is more like a children's story! However, there are some details in this story that show that in the story of the establishment of "SpaceX", others were the main actors, but as usual, the fruit of fame was stolen by Musk.

According to this well-established media story, in October 2001, 30-year-old Elon Musk traveled to Moscow with Jim Cantrell and his college friend Adeo Ressi to buy rockets from Russian space companies. But who is Jim Cantrell? As much as Elon Musk was an unkown aerospace-related figure in 2001, he was an internationally recognized individual in the field. The well-known entrepreneur and mechanical engineer had worked with space organizations in several countries and personally founded the Phantom Aerospace Company.
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He also worked with the Pentagon on defense projects. Significantly, Canterll was the co-founder, vice president, and think tank of SpaceX. He was even the chief engineer of the company's first major project, the Falcon 1. [12]
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Unlike Musk, he had studied in this field (rocket production), had many years of practical experience, and had worked for many years with various aerospace organizations. [13] [14] But today there is no mention of the name Cantrell in the history of SpaceX, as it seems that only one name was to remain in the middle, grow and become a "myth".

But the story becomes more interesting when we know about those alleged trips to Russia to buy ballistic missiles. In February 2022, a very interesting figure joined Musk and his other comrades: Michael D. Griffin, a physicist and aerospace engineer, Deputy Secretary of Defense, a CIA fellow in science and technology, the story becomes even more interesting when knowing the fact that This person became the 11th director of NASA (2005-2009) three years after this trip! [15]
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Jim Cantrell's explanation about the afforementioned trip

I wasnt aware Musk had a hair transplant

 

[F-22Raptor]

Well one of your main complaints is that facts are twisted...and here you go writing a long reply doing it yourself. I'm not sure where to even start.

In 1953 a scientist predicted a man titled 'Elon' would lead humans to Mars and crown himself 'Martian Emperor'

In 1953, a book was published that predicted a leader titled "Elon" would lead humans to the planet Mars.

www.businessinsider.com

"In his book, Von Braun doesn't say that a person named Elon would lead humanity to Mars but rather that the name of the leader's position would be "Elon."

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Snopes debunks...

Did Buzz Aldrin Admit That He Never Went to the Moon?

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin's answer to a question posed by a child was misrepresented as an admission that he didn't set foot on the moon.

www.snopes.com

Did Buzz Aldrin Admit That He Never Went to the Moon?​

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"The child didn’t ask Buzz Aldrin if he ever went to the moon. Rather, she posted the question “Why has nobody been to the moon in such a long time?” to the astronaut. When Aldrin said in reply that “we didn’t go there” and “that’s the way it happened,”"

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The mysterious "CC" that you have masked in the OP is actually "Compaq Computer". They owned the widely used AltaVista search engine and were getting worried about this new company called "Google" taking over the industry and pushing them out as Google had been hired by Yahoo to be their search provider.

Compaq bought Zip2 to hopefully help them maintain marketshare.

We all know that didn't work. Not only did Google kill Altavista but also Yahoo and pretty much everybody else and is now one of the biggest net worth companies on the planet.

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Say what you will about Elon Musk but he is the force behind SpaceX and Tesla and you can't deny he is going to get his own blurb in the history books for his achievements just like other people in the past like the Wright Brothers or Thomas Edison.

Currently this is what he has:

In 2021 (and most of the years before too) Tesla sold the most 100% EV vehicles in the world. Tesla is/was pretty much the single driving force behind electric vehicle adoption by countries on this planet. Before Tesla..100% EVs were simply for a niche crowd and not heavily marketed to the average consumer.

Tesla has installed a network of electric charging stations in over 40 countries...the most by anybody. Sometimes they are the sole source in a country. Tesla could also be called the driving force into the adoption of non-gasoline stations.

While Google's Waymo will make the history books as the first taxi service to field a self-driving commercial vehicle fleet; Tesla will get an entry for the first fielded consumer car with self-driving abilities.

Tesla has approximately 100,000 average consumers in 2 countries testing it with their own personal cars..just like the guy in the above video. Remember this all dynamic AI driving using computer vision which is analyzing every pixel it sees (as a person would) to determine what to do next as no pre-mapping of the area is required. For instance if it has to make a right turn it looks down to see where the curb is so it doesn't hit it. It even identifies the turn signals on others cars.

SpaceX Crew Dragon is the only active manned flight proven spacecraft that is reusable..while normally it seats 4...it can seat 7 if they want (others the max is 3) (Starliner has not had human occupants yet and yes it can also seat 7). They currently have launched more people into space than the Chinese government (which has had a manned program for 17+ years).

SpaceX has landed 124 1st stage rockets successfully..and they are reusable. Nobody else has landed even one (The closest is the parachute ocean landings the space shuttles used for their reusable solid rocket boosters).

SpaceX has the most powerful flight proven active rocket in the world (Falcon Heavy) and within months will launch another (Starship) that will make it look tiny...and they are also reusable.

SpaceX owns most of the active satellites orbiting the planet now. Its Starlink high-speed data bandwidth is so good it actually is mentioned by Ukraine as a significant help in their defensive war effort against the Russians. Airlines and ocean traveling ships are now actively pursuing adding Starlink so they can (for the very first time) offer high-speed WIFI to their international travelers (yay we will now be able to play Fortnite on a plane)

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Make it 126 first stage landings!

 

[Goritoes]

If he gives me a Free Tesla, than I like him... If not than I am picking someone else.

 

[Skull and Bones]

He is a reckless prick who doesn't know the impact of his words have on gullible netizens who sold their houses and assets and invested in Dogecoin or Bitcoin.

 

[SaadH]

Musk's neither an engineer nor a scientist, he was a mediocre programmer who dropped out of college and used his family's connections to make his first venture a success by hoodwinking an established tech company to buy his failing company prompting former to go out of business months after buying Musk's failing venture. And from there on it has been one case of failing up after another, from getting fired by Paypal as the CEO because he was clueless to taking over Tesla by firing the brains behind the company, i.e. the founding engineers to Solar City takeover and the failed solar roof to his pathetic attempt of reinventing the subways only making it infinitely more expensive and inefficient to hyperloop, which was actually a century old idea. If it wasn't for the US gov't's subsidies and other free handouts like the car plant in Fremont and legions of clones and cultists willing to invest their life savings into Tesla, he would have been irrelevant long ago.

If you really listen to his interviews from a technical POV, he comes across as a clueless dyslexic windbag, only the likes of Joe Rogan and his millions of bros fan think this charlatan is a genius.

 

[Menthol]

Well... of course!

I think Elon Musk is a marketing genius rather than an inventor.

Despite the fact that he is not the inventor, at least without him, there are no Tesla and SpaceX of today.

Despite how intelligence and high IQ of the original inventor, without funding, which is what Elon Musk does, it will not happen.

And then, there are visions, to combine or reshape all the inventions into a single idea that's successful in the market.

 

[Muhammed45]

Well one of your main complaints is that facts are twisted...and here you go writing a long reply doing it yourself. I'm not sure where to even start.

In 1953 a scientist predicted a man titled 'Elon' would lead humans to Mars and crown himself 'Martian Emperor'

In 1953, a book was published that predicted a leader titled "Elon" would lead humans to the planet Mars.

www.businessinsider.com

"In his book, Von Braun doesn't say that a person named Elon would lead humanity to Mars but rather that the name of the leader's position would be "Elon."

---

Snopes debunks...

Did Buzz Aldrin Admit That He Never Went to the Moon?

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin's answer to a question posed by a child was misrepresented as an admission that he didn't set foot on the moon.

www.snopes.com

Did Buzz Aldrin Admit That He Never Went to the Moon?​

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"The child didn’t ask Buzz Aldrin if he ever went to the moon. Rather, she posted the question “Why has nobody been to the moon in such a long time?” to the astronaut. When Aldrin said in reply that “we didn’t go there” and “that’s the way it happened,”"

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The mysterious "CC" that you have masked in the OP is actually "Compaq Computer". They owned the widely used AltaVista search engine and were getting worried about this new company called "Google" taking over the industry and pushing them out as Google had been hired by Yahoo to be their search provider.

Compaq bought Zip2 to hopefully help them maintain marketshare.

We all know that didn't work. Not only did Google kill Altavista but also Yahoo and pretty much everybody else and is now one of the biggest net worth companies on the planet.

---

Say what you will about Elon Musk but he is the force behind SpaceX and Tesla and you can't deny he is going to get his own blurb in the history books for his achievements just like other people in the past like the Wright Brothers or Thomas Edison.

Currently this is what he has:

In 2021 (and most of the years before too) Tesla sold the most 100% EV vehicles in the world. Tesla is/was pretty much the single driving force behind electric vehicle adoption by countries on this planet. Before Tesla..100% EVs were simply for a niche crowd and not heavily marketed to the average consumer.

Tesla has installed a network of electric charging stations in over 40 countries...the most by anybody. Sometimes they are the sole source in a country. Tesla could also be called the driving force into the adoption of non-gasoline stations.

While Google's Waymo will make the history books as the first taxi service to field a self-driving commercial vehicle fleet; Tesla will get an entry for the first fielded consumer car with self-driving abilities.

Tesla has approximately 100,000 average consumers in 2 countries testing it with their own personal cars..just like the guy in the above video. Remember this all dynamic AI driving using computer vision which is analyzing every pixel it sees (as a person would) to determine what to do next as no pre-mapping of the area is required. For instance if it has to make a right turn it looks down to see where the curb is so it doesn't hit it. It even identifies the turn signals on others cars.

SpaceX Crew Dragon is the only active manned flight proven spacecraft that is reusable..while normally it seats 4...it can seat 7 if they want (others the max is 3) (Starliner has not had human occupants yet and yes it can also seat 7). They currently have launched more people into space than the Chinese government (which has had a manned program for 17+ years).

SpaceX has landed 124 1st stage rockets successfully..and they are reusable. Nobody else has landed even one (The closest is the parachute ocean landings the space shuttles used for their reusable solid rocket boosters).

SpaceX has the most powerful flight proven active rocket in the world (Falcon Heavy) and within months will launch another (Starship) that will make it look tiny...and they are also reusable.

SpaceX owns most of the active satellites orbiting the planet now. Its Starlink high-speed data bandwidth is so good it actually is mentioned by Ukraine as a significant help in their defensive war effort against the Russians. Airlines and ocean traveling ships are now actively pursuing adding Starlink so they can (for the very first time) offer high-speed WIFI to their international travelers (yay we will now be able to play Fortnite on a plane)

How come you land on the moon again, just to prove us your point?