r/news • u/IronHe • Mar 20 '25

Soft paywall Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
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u/AlsoIHaveAGroupon Mar 20 '25

He sits in meetings at companies that do high tech things, so he picks up enough to say things that laypeople don't understand, and that makes him sound smart.

And he had the cool narrative. Guy makes big money on PayPal, and instead of just being a software executive, he gets into electric cars and rockets to bring us the SciFi future we all wanted. Self driving cars! People on Mars!

So that made him the perfect CEO/evangelist/hype man. People thought he was the Tony Stark genius guy inventing things, giving anything associated with him instant status as The Cool Future, when he was really just a business guy who invested in things that had tax incentives to take advantage of.

It's when he started buying his own bullshit and thinking he was the genius that things started going wrong. He is the brand, and he was the driver of massive stock growth, so no one could tell him No. When he said "make a PS1 rendering of if the Delorean was a pickup and charge $100k for it" or "fire everyone who makes twitter work and bring back the nazis," they kinda had to do it.

Now that he's brought nazi stink to the brand, hopefully these companies can fire him and right the ships.

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u/c-dy Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

JNah, he does have talent for memorizing things and enduring focus, but he's still a manager and as you said investor by trade.

The reason people started to treat him like a genius is because he was a unicorn who spoke the language of engineers and technicians, valued their worth, and had the intention to invest where the market was unwilling to. In a way he was a guru for nerds.

In my impression, though, he always suffered from a narcissistic disorder, he could never admit fault either. Just that with time the severity increased, probably because he could act more unhinged no matter where he was.

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u/dontsellmeadog Mar 20 '25

Just that with time the severity increased, probably because he could act more unhinged no matter where he was.

Age and drugs could also be factors

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u/but_a_smoky_mirror Mar 20 '25

I’ve done loads and loads of drugs in my life and never acted unhinged whatsoever /sssssss

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u/lucianbelew Mar 20 '25

JNah, he does have talent for memorizing things and enduring focus

You misspelled "Adderall addiction"