• Flying Squid
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      231 year ago

      As much as I hate them, I would wager that the majority of CEOs are more educated, smarter and have a better understanding of their business than Elon “Failed Upward” Musk.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        CEOs are more educated, smarter and have a better understanding of their business

        You haven’t met that many of them, have you?

        I have - the difference between the ones I met and the likes of Elon is that none of the ones I met had any interest in being celebrities. That’s the only difference - their institutionalized incompetence was the exact same.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Yeah, they only want to be well-connected with other CEOs and big investors so they can jump between orgs.

          That said, some CEOs are decent. We just got a new CEO, and they seem decent. They have industry experience, not just an MBA from a prestigious school, and they asked the right questions when visiting recently. We’re not a huge org though (a few thousand people), but we are publicly traded (not in the US).

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    hey that’s insulting. against pigeons. they can at least fly without exploding (space x doesnt really), navigate to places without risking themselves (unlike telsa autopilot) and they don’t ruin every corporation they own. fuck musk though

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    More like one of those geese who are endangered in some places along their migratory path.

    A pigeon you can shoot away, those birds you can’t. And they’ve learned that humans in those places can’t/won’t do anything

  • BarqsHasBite
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    61 year ago

    Ohh that’s how you’re supposed to run businesses! Learn from the business genius! (/s)

  • @[email protected]
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    251 year ago

    There’s a picture this makes me think of where a bunch of birds are sitting on a tree in typical pyramid hierarchy diagram positions, and each level of birds starting from the second is covered in more shit than the previous.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      As much as I dislike the guy, so did he. He popularized EVs, brought a viable space program back to the west and even neuralink seems promising for people with certain disabilities.

      And no, that doesn’t excuse hyperloop, twitter, Tesla‘s broken promises, him being a questionable human to put it mildly, etc. but claiming he contributed nothing is a very black/white thinking.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Viable space program? Starlink is shitting all over our orbit, Artemis is fucked because SpaceX needs 12 or more launches to refuel one flight to the moon. Additionally the whole development is like tesla full self driving, always promise for next year and don’t deliver. The moon was to be reached in 2024 and as of now SpaceX is celebrating failed test launches as win… Years behind schedule…

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I didn’t say spacex was perfect. However, we were relying entirely on the Russians to get astronauts to and from the ISS since 2011 until spaceX built the crew dragon.

          That musk is exaggerating everything they do is a very different story but that’s also not what I’m talking about.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Exactly. Without his ability to secure funding, those projects likely wouldn’t be as successful as they are today.

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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        21 year ago

        He really tries hard to outweigh anything good. It seems like a mission of some sort: Let’s do the cool things and smear it all in shit of my personality

      • @[email protected]
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        401 year ago

        Maybe they mean pigeon to make it sound like he isn’t able to be a seagull manager. Like he’s trying to be a seagull manager, but only managed pigeon manager. A quiet insult.

        • @[email protected]
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          161 year ago

          Maybe all Tesla managers are as dumb as Musk himself and they did mean Pigeon but in an unironic way.

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            Seems more like he’s combining it with a quote:

            “Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyways.”

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      Steven management?

      Edit: I was joking around. Since Seagal sounds very similar to seagull.

  • Flying Squid
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    731 year ago

    I’m picturing him walking into Tesla’s offices, going over to the engineers, saying, “make the horn make a fart noise,” and leaving, thinking he’s brilliant.

    • Panda (he/him)
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      > be me

      > walk into billion dollar company that’s slowly tanking

      > entire staff gets down on their knees begging for mercy

      > look around

      > point to the most impressive technological advancement in transportation of the century since the car was invented

      > “what the hell is this?”

      > lead project manager raises, still trembling

      > “it’s our brand new zero emission self driving car powered entirely by the air around it and it can be produced for half the cost of our existing line”

      > do that obama lip thing

      > “not bad, not bad”

      > idea pops into my head

      > evilgrinchgrin.jpg

      > “what if… you made the horn sound a fart?”

      > everybody has a nervous breakdown

      > cut half the team and leave without elaborating

      > be homeless dude wielding machete

      > picture unrelated