Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his “fanboys” who have attempted to use the billionaire’s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.
He was quite good at marketing. He wasn’t a technical guy and apparently wasn’t terribly good at driving technical people either. But he was great at selling whatever the tech people came up with.
His only smart trick was to sell things super expensive to flatter the ego of the buyer. It’s not rocket science.
The focus on the user experience, rather than the underlying tech, was Job’s key insight.
aka he was an idiot who didn’t want to / was too dumb to take the time to understand machines.
That’s the opposite of genious lmao. My boss is the same.