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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.

Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning 4 lyyyyyfe

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

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

I think he's an asshole¹ but he's not nearly on the same level as Elmo or any other billionaire. Between actually working and contributing, not being as hardcore exploitative capitalist, and not having nearly the same level of hoarded wealth², there's just far less potential for assholery.

1: Mind, I still value his work, but the way he sometimes treats people reaches into asshole territory for me.
2: A superficial search suggests a net worth of $50 million. In perspective, that's $0.05 billion, compared to the late Jobs' $10.8 billion (0.5%) or Musk's ~$400 billion (0.01%)

He might be a bit short fused, but not an asshole.

He's short fused with volunteers who are donating time to his project, which makes him an asshole.

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

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.

A bit asshole I see.

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

I asked grok and it said he did. It also said earth was cylindrical.

That nickname is an insult to compassionate and intelligent muppets.

My university textbooks said he did. I was dumfounded when I saw that.

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

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.

Is there any evidence that he's ever done anything to try to hide it? I've only ever seen that claim as an engagement-bait caption on the photo itself, to coax people into sharing it.

There's never any details of exactly what steps he's taken to erase it from the internet, and in fact when I searched it just now one of the top results shows that he literally retweeted the photo himself. I mean, fuck Musk and all, but also fuck clickbait.

You can hear his trustfund sing

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.

if you would like to read more of his delusions