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  • Okay, and the OP's source for Elon's success coming solely from daddy's money and nothing else is what?

    Musk has publicly laid out that anybody can get rich writing software without much startup capital - which not only makes sense but by all accounts seems to be exactly what he did.

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  • This is a common misconception. His daddy loaned him a whopping 28 grand. Nothing mind blowing, and certainly not what you'd expect the heir of a freaking emerald mine to get their hands on.

    Elon Musk got most of his capital early in his career from the sale of his first company, Zip2, which he co-founded with his brother Kimbal in 1995 using $28,000 borrowed from their father[1][6]. In 1999, Zip2 was sold to Compaq for $307 million, with Musk earning $22 million[1][6]. Musk then invested $10 million of his Zip2 proceeds into founding X.com, one of the first attempts at online banking, which later became PayPal[1]. After PayPal, Musk invested all of his proceeds into his new projects: SpaceX ($100 million), Tesla ($70 million), and SolarCity ($10 million) [1]. By 2008, he was almost penniless and living on $200 thousand monthly loans from his friends after a $20 million divorce[1]. However, his fortunes changed, and by 2017, his net worth had risen to $16 billion[1].

    Citations: [1] https://www.toptal.com/finance/venture-capital-consultants/elon-musks-investments [2] https://time.com/6127754/elon-musk-net-worth-person-of-the-year/ [3] https://money.com/8-innovative-ways-elon-musk-made-money-before-he-was-a-billionaire/ [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk [5] https://financebuzz.com/jobs-elon-musk-had-before-wealthy [6] https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/origin-stories/elon-musk>

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  • I have a vague recollection of a Canadian politician getting cornered with a great question on covid response overreach on a video call, and after everyone watching, including a live audience, heard everything crystal clear, they were like "sorry, we seem to be having technical issues, couldn't hear the question, looks like you're breaking up!" And then they hung up LOL.

    Nothing to see here, folks, go back to your business!

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    What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?
  • Ignoring all common sense approaches to staying competitive by using simple, textbook ideas of strategic management does negatively impact growth.

    Imagine that!

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  • Yup this is why I block after commenting now. 20 years on social media, taking abuse and insult the whole time because I disagree with someone. I'm just done.

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  • I like the roc-ds a lot more than the one-seater, but I can't remember what is the most affordable ship in auec that can actually carry it

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    I have a bad wrist and a vertical mouse. Combined (or maybe even separately), these mean that my aim will never be great. I have spent 2 years trying to develop muscle memory and aim with fixed guns in dogfights. The results have been downright awful. So, I decided to try gimbaled weapons. The difference was night and day.

    Yesterday, some guy in a blade picked a fight with me (in a mustang alpha rigged up with gimbaled weapons) and within a minute, he was high tailing it out of there.

    Turns out, the gimbaled weapons also allowed me to pull more wild and erratic maneuvers for getting behind the target while still keeping up the pressure DPS needed to win.

    So, in conclusion, gimbaled weapons are okay! Thanks for listening to my TARD talk.

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