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[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

I have a spare pair of bootstraps if anyone needs

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Jondar@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 months ago

This super-genius real-life-Tony-Stark has revealed himself to be a chaotic doofus incapable of running a successful company when he's not insulated by more capable people.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought the Tesla board approved a massive bonus for him. Where did that money go?

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The bonus was in stock. It was pretty much just replenishing the stock he dumped when he was buying twitter.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

wouldn’t life be easy if you could just use everyone else’s money for whatever you want

[–] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Why tho? He doesn’t need it to be profitable, he already has it as his own echo chamber. Any more money in is just sunk cost fallacy to bring back people he’s happy to see gone in the first place.

“It’s my house and I’ll shoot out the windows if I want to,” Musk was heard screaming, yesterday.