Re: Musk has lot of bold goals, but how many has he achieved?

"Stephen Harding"  wrote in message news:[email protected]...

"a425couple"  wrote in message news:[email protected]...
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> from Seattle Times
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> Musk has lot of bold goals, but how many has he achieved?
> Whether it’s a colony on Mars or autonomous cars, he thinks big...

Yeah, that trillionaire Musk is quite the failure!

SMH

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The combination of first-rate business plus engineering skills is very rare, 
more typically the inventor / industrialist who creates a company must 
choose the one he's best at and hire the other, both roles require full time 
attention. James Watt was the engineer, Matthew Boulton the businessman. 
George Westinghouse, noted for inventing railroad air brakes, became the 
businessman instead and hired Tesla et.al. for engineering. Henry Royce was 
the brilliant engineer who took on car dealer Charles Rolls as his money 
man. Though Eddie Rickenbacker was quite technically competent he put his 
mentor Lee Frayer in charge of engineering and became the CEO and chief car 
salesman for the Rickenbacker Motor Company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse

I worked on this man's color printer project. He rarely visited the lab 
except for meetings to raise more funding from 'angel' investors. Former 
Centronics engineers did the daily work.
https://whattheythink.com/articles/71875-we-remember-robert-howard/

My finance-related contribution was to take an investor's business card, 
digitize and clean it up, and print sample pages with their letterhead in 
brilliant color to prove we were making good progress. I had never expected 
to become a graphic artist and printer font designer. Their process of 
precisely spraying molten plastic ink inspired 3D printing.

Dean Kamen isolated himself from Segway and I never encountered him there, 
and don't know how much he involved himself in design. Doug Field was 
Segway's senior engineer. I was usually the lab tech who filled in the 
details and  built functioning hardware from engineer's concepts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen

https://meche.mit.edu/people/doug-field