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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (211751)	8/31/2022 4:55:46 PM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Recommended By Zen Dollar Round Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

> I think Musk is really an engineer at heart That's the image he promotes... certainly in his original interview with Rogan he promoted that idea. I bought into it at first until I found out more about Musk's businesses. Musk Wiki I don't think its true. He bought into almost everything. The companies he CREATED aren't that profitable yet mostly. I think he understands how engineers create things though, and so far he's bought in at the right time in history. But he's not fond of sitting down and engineering. I think after he co-created his first company where he did apparently do a lot of sitting in front of a screen coding he decided he didn't really like sitting in front of a screen. Sometimes its luck. Like Russ Solomon who was considered a marketing genius by many. He started TowerRecords at exactly the right time selling records at his dad's drug store right when 12" records took off. He did two very smart things. Open late usually until midnight, 24 hours in some stored like NYC and deep catalogue when most places only carried the to 20 records Tower had 10,000. But Tower went bankrupt at least 4 times causing him to have to bring in harsh management who actually ran the company. He blamed his demise on downloads when it was actually half.com & eventually Amazon selling very cheap used CDs online that brought Tower down. Millions in deep catalogue, open 24 hours, no driving only to find out they were out of a CD and and used but pristine Madonna CD for $5 instead of $16. Tower totally missed the boat on used online. So much for his image as a genius. Steve Jobs "image" among many isn't real either. I for one will never forget the puck (among other disasters) or stop bragging that I predicted a touch screen iPhone when many here dismissed the idea. Seems to me that the touch screen phone was THE one idea really catapulted Apple into the stratosphere, and they beat everyone to the punch by a wide margin... particularly Microsoft.