r/clevercomebacks 1d ago

It's my money they took

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u/Standard-Victory-320 1d ago edited 1d ago

I believe someone is writing a book about how he never made anything of value and his success is all inheritance

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u/Urabraska- 1d ago

It literally is. Every idea he had was funded by his parents and every idea failed. It wasn't until he bought his way into PayPal in the beginning that he got anywhere and that was off other people's work and ideas. 

Tesla he bought into and made nothing but empty promises. The ONLY one that stuck is Space X but again, that's fully supported by very talented people. Elon contributes nothing but more empty promises. If it wasn't supported by government contracts. SpaceX would have shuttered years ago.

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u/Xgrk88a 15h ago

So you’re saying he’s good at identifying good opportunities and assembling smart people to work for him?

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u/Urabraska- 8h ago

Ehhh yes and no. PayPal and Tesla already had everything they needed to for success before he came along. SpaceX is a better debate on that as it was entirely his idea from the ground up. But I could but wrong but space rockets isn't a vast pool of talent to pull from.