Could you anyone explain how the same person that founded SpaceX could be so bad at managing Twitter?
I mean, he is so bad that a child you'd have managed it better.
On the other side, SpaceX is a pretty well managed company, a market leader that manages to sell its services for 30% cheaper than its closest competitor.
(I'm not referring to Tesla, as it might just happen that Musk took over when the teams were already efficient and the roadmap well defined. Tesla's success might be pure Musk's luck)
So my theory right now is that the people who need to push back against him have little leverage externally to use.
At spaceX, if an idea is stupid the engineers can say that the Government won't allow that, or something similar(ie laws of physics). It creates an external "No", so it's not the engineers fault and they get to continue working on what will work.
Similarly at Tesla, it's sometimes simple to say that it's against the law to make that change, but there are less regulations so more stupid stuff gets put in(for me it's the ues of the screen for so much, if it were legal he would have the turn signal controls on that screen).
At twitter/X there are basically no regulations, you cannot say that something stupid is not allowed, because there are no rules. He does not allow people to say "No" in his circle.
He found success in Tesla and SpaceX because people are empowered at some level to say No. At twitter/X, they are not.
They're such totally different products that I don't think you can meaningfully compare them. The big thing about Twitter is the social, mass-market angle that Musk seems to not get.
There have been a lot of CEOs that took control of a 2nd company in a totally different field, but have never been so catastrophic. Musk's takeover of Twitter is a total anomaly.
SpaceX has a highly competent COO and a team of passionate, skilled people who would put up with any kind of nonsense to build and launch cool rockets.
I mean, he is so bad that a child you'd have managed it better.
On the other side, SpaceX is a pretty well managed company, a market leader that manages to sell its services for 30% cheaper than its closest competitor.
(I'm not referring to Tesla, as it might just happen that Musk took over when the teams were already efficient and the roadmap well defined. Tesla's success might be pure Musk's luck)