Inside the Mind of the $20 Billion Dollar Man: Elon Musk Internal Letter to Employees

[biophase]

That is a good question. My first instinct was that it doesn't matter for SMBs.

What is a SMB?

 

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[ApparentHorizon]

What's with the over-the-top high regard for Elon Musk, and Tesla and SpaceX in general?

If it wasn't for the massive media hype and US gov't (read: tax payer) funding, Tesla and SpaceX wouldn't exist today.

Tesla consistently overpromises and under-delivers. I like the concept, the cars are cool, but you can't make promise after promise, only to fail to deliver time and time again. Meanwhile, Tesla is squandering tens (hundreds? who knows?) of millions of tax dollars on a never-ending chain of subcontractors, who are, for lack of a better term, milking the corporate government tax payer tit. This has been going on for YEARS, but only now it is coming to light within the company?

SpaceX has lost ~9% of payloads launched, yet it's persistently hyped in the media and overpromised by Musk. ULA launches are more expensive than SpaceX's, however, ULA has not lost a payload to date since its inception.

I'm not buying into the hype and godlike aura given to Elon Musk and his companies, and I don't care for the way he markets his products.

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[Ayanle Farah]

I've always been wondering, how did Elon Musk fight all the oil companies alone? How is the government supportive of him when the United States is the country which screwed up Iraq for oil?

 

[TheCj]

"Letter" sounds more like advertising... I don't recall any boss talking to employee's about profit's... maybe increasing sales to sales teams.. or cutting expense's ...