The Journal reported executives at SpaceX worried Elon Musk was on drugs after an “unhinged” all-hands meeting in which he slurred and rambled.

  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    646 months ago

    If you have money, then in the business world you have intrinsic value.

    When you have enough, you reach the tipping point where it doesn’t just need to be the only thing you provide, but it outweighs others ways you hurt the business.

    The less your ideas are useful and the more money you hoard, the faster it changes.

    It can go quickly downhill when the CEOs wealth is tied to stock price.

    And ends disastrously when they go somewhere that workers aren’t used to them. Because the CEO was never told they used to be babysat just for their money, they legit believe they’re a genius

    • @psud@lemmy.world
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      26 months ago

      It’s impressive then that the starship stack is stainless steel not carbon. Musk planned a giant carbon fibre rocket. The engineers he hired got him to change size and change material