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Comment by Arainach | Hacker News Reader

Good news: Musk has done none of those things. At best he's distracted and interfered with people who did those things.

We have irrefutable evidence that Elon was the top executive at companies that did all those things, while you have no evidence that those things would have happened without him.

No need to prove it wouldn't have happened without him.

They already design new rockets, robots and chip without him being on site because he's busy with Twitter.

And I guess it's pretty easy for him to do a remote session if he needs to. He has his own Internet company.

Otherwise it's like driving a combustion car if you own a electric car company.

Doesn't mean he designed a rocket, robot or chip.

I don't like Musk very much since he went nuts post breakup with his GF. But he does have meaningful input, technical design is not the only thing - other companies like Boeing, Blue Origin or Ariane have great engineers too, seems like technical design is not the most important part.

And you're telling me that's impossible without being on site?

Ever heard of web meetings or even telephone?

Yes, I have the misfortune of being on web meetings and telephone all day, every day. Even the comparatively very simple projects I work on move forward the most during our on-site meetings - and I don't mean the technological side, that's what we do after the on-site, it's exactly the parts where Musk would have most input that feel stuck online and everyone feels like we unblocked our minds and collaboration on-site.

You think companies as successful as SpaceX, Tesla or Neuralink would have been possible without Musk?

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