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> Nothing else connects these dots in any way that aligns with his other successes, unless there’s some whole other part of this constellation I haven’t seen yet.

A. Luck. As we all know, there's a certain amount of luck involved in building a business. So "he got lucky, repeatedly, and then didn't" kinda works as an explanation.

B. as I understand it, he didn't found SpaceX or Tesla, but bought them and forced everyone to pretend he founded them.

C. Again, as I understand it, the management at the other businesses spend a lot of time managing Elon's ego, and this has been missing at X/Twitter.

I think this story will be discussed at length in future MBA classes. Interesting to see it happen in real time.



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