> Which is why he has undeniably succeeded in doing incredibly hard things, things that many (most) said were well nigh impossible.<p>> Built an EV car company, operating at scale<p>He bought into a pre-existing company.<p>> Produced batteries for those cars at scale<p>How is the 4680 going? And is BYD eating its lunch yet? Last I looked they losing court cases over a particular dry cathode patent.<p>And well, BYD's new fast charging tech is far more performant than Tesla superchargers, multiple car makers (including Tesla!) are using their batteries not the 4680, so...<p>> Launched brand new self-made rockets to space, at scale, including catching them on a ship when they fell back from the sky!<p>That is indeed pretty cool, but did Elon actually do that? Also, how's Starship looking? Can it take more payload to orbit than a Falcon Heavy yet? Is it exploding less often?<p>> Bored tunnels cheaply<p>[citations really needed] If they can do this, the Boring Company isn't capitalising on it, I see a lot of cancelled projects, and only one where the public actually uses it (in Las Vegas).<p>But hey, Elon's definitely a doer, just you know, sometimes he's doing things that are very bad for the companies involved.<p>If he could stop trying to micromanage his companies, and just trust the very very very smart people who work there, and maybe I dunno, turn back time and not get radicalised on the Internet because his child transitioned, and avoid getting involved in politics in the absolute worst way possible, he'd accomplish so much more.<p>Someone once told me that Tesla and SpaceX largely succeeded in spite of Elon, and it rings true.<p>But I feel mean-spirited commenting this on a 3 year old post, that feels like an eternity ago in the Muskverse.