All my teammates at work love the guy. They all have Teslas which they love compared to their old ICE car (fair, but there are much better EV options out there nowadays and these companies didn't take absurd amounts of taxpayer money to do the R&D)
They also praise the success that SpaceX has achieved which again, fair but Elon didn't really do anything himself. He just grifted taxpayer money into a private sector company. Literally hire the exact same people at NASA and give them the same amount of budget and project goals and they'd do the same or better. At least with a lot of other tech companies the CEOs actually did some useful engineering/product/design work from the beginning which built the foundation of the company before becoming leeches
All my teammates at work love the guy. They all have Teslas which they love compared to their old ICE car (fair, but there are much better EV options out there nowadays and these companies didn't take absurd amounts of taxpayer money to do the R&D)
They also praise the success that SpaceX has achieved which again, fair but Elon didn't really do anything himself. He just grifted taxpayer money into a private sector company. Literally hire the exact same people at NASA and give them the same amount of budget and project goals and they'd do the same or better. At least with a lot of other tech companies the CEOs actually did some useful engineering/product/design work from the beginning which built the foundation of the company before becoming leeches