Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his ā€œfanboysā€ who have attempted to use the billionaireā€™s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    He was quite good at marketing. He wasnā€™t a technical guy and apparently wasnā€™t terribly good at driving technical people either. But he was great at selling whatever the tech people came up with.

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      1 day ago

      His only smart trick was to sell things super expensive to flatter the ego of the buyer. Itā€™s not rocket science.

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          14 hours ago

          aka he was an idiot who didnā€™t want to / was too dumb to take the time to understand machines.

          Thatā€™s the opposite of genious lmao. My boss is the same.