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    [–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 48 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
    [–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

    and he isn't visionary. that's 2 out of 3...

    I'll allow asshole but it's still a bit too flattering for him.

    [–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

    Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning 4 lyyyyyfe

    [–] Schwim@lemmy.zip 139 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    Elon is not the founder of Tesla. He sued the actual founders to bury that fact.

    [–] Potatar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    Sounds like a constituion/lawmaker problem to me if he won/settled (i.e. paid to win).

    [–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

    doesn't change the fact that he's not the founder.

    [–] Schwim@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

    No dispute on my end but the fact remains he's a unfitting example for the meme as he was the fourth CEO in the company's history and wasn't in the picture when it was founded.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/06/tesla-founders-martin-eberhard-marc-tarpenning-on-elon-musk.html

    [–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 12 hours ago

    much like many of his other "projects", he's not the founder. He bought it with his inheritance, then trashed the product.

    [–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 32 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    I don't think Linus Thorvalds is either very stylish or really an asshole. He might be a bit short fused, but not an asshole.

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 31 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    Eh, he'd probably agree that he is a bit of an asshole.

    [–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

    He’s definitely a bit of an asshole. I appreciate his propensity to talk shit to people, I enjoy that myself, but he equates intelligence with technical skill and tells people they just need a thicker skin if they don’t like his abuse.

    [–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    Eh - I mean, I'm not an asshole all the time, but I can be occasionally. I'm also not very stylish.

    Wait...am I Linus Thorvalds? Nope.

    [–] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

    Too late. You outed yourself, Linus

    [–] wabafee@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

    A bit asshole I see.

    [–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 27 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    Replace "Visionary" with "Infamous" and musk photo with that one goth photo that he was trying to hide.

    [–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

    You can hear his trustfund sing

    [–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 112 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

    Okay funny, but yeah Tesla on here kinda fucks it up because Elon is not a founder of Tesla, and he's not visionary unless you count finding new ways to make it worthless. Elon is not visionary in any of his businesses, he just has money and pays people under him to try to make him look good. Emphasis on try

    He is an asshole though, I'll give you that

    [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

    Oh, but Elon is a founder, he paid enough to retcon himself as such, so he is.

    Can't argue him being a 'visionary' though, unless you count ambitions that are vague enough so they are not actually actionable and obvious enough that pretty much any random person would be predicting the same thing.

    [–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    Paying to say you are something doesn't mean people need to accept it. He's not a founder of Tesla under conventional understanding and he never will be. It's as simple as that

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    [–] Phegan@lemmy.world 241 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Elon musk didn't found tesla. He's also an idiot nepo baby, not a visionary.

    [–] seralth@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Elon to my knowledge hasn't been the founder of a single project he's been part of. He's bought everything.

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    [–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 325 points 1 day ago (15 children)

    Actually, Elmo didn't found Tesla.

    [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 9 hours ago

    steve jobs sued and stole his way to apple.

    [–] ccunning@lemmy.world 154 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Didn’t he in fact sue the actual founders to be allowed to be called a founder?

    [–] db2@lemmy.world 102 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I thought he paid extra to be able to tell that lie.

    [–] ccunning@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I believe the lawsuit was settled. I don’t really remember the details, but sounds super-Musky that that would be part of the terms of the settlement.

    [–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I replace your reality with my own, using the legal system.

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    [–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 64 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

    Musk bought it not founded it. There needs to be a whole nother column

    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago

    Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are the founders.

    Instead of having them as the face of American EV innovation, we have some guy who's talent is being born with money and then getting lucky in a business venture.

    There's hundreds or thousands of these companies which were founded by innovative and creative people that were bought out and absorbed into some giant corporation so that it doesn't ever have to compete with anybody.

    [–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    Pretty sure Elmo isn't one of the founders of Tesla. And calling him a visionary is pushing it.

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    [–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

    Oh my God is Linux pronounced Line-ux?

    [–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 11 points 15 hours ago

    On the chance this isn't a joke, no it isn't, Linus has said so himself

    [–] dabster291@lemmy.zip 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Apparently, Linus' name is pronounced like how people normally pronounce Linux, according to his Wikipedia page.

    [–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago
    [–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

    omfg seriously?

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    [–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

    You all don’t know what you’re talking about. Elon absolutely is a visionary. Who else could come up with the new Tesla Roadster with rocket thruster package (source)? Now, actually brining that vision to market, yeah Elon might not be your guy. Now that I think about it, his visions are more like delusions. Maybe let’s call him a delusionary.

    Also gonna put this here if you would like to read more of his delusions. https://elonmusk.today/

    [–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago

    if you would like to read more of his delusions

    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 20 points 21 hours ago

    I came here to point out that Musk didn't found Tesla, but I see that this is basically the entire topic of the comnents section πŸ˜‚

    [–] deadbeef@lemmy.nz 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I would have figured the three Linuses would have been like:

    1. Enthusiastic loud mouthed young Linus arguing with Tannenbaum.

    2. Aggressive Linus with no filter at all slapping maintainers upside the head.

    3. Aggressive Elder Linus with a personal insult filter applied still slapping maintainers upside the head.

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