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Elon Musk lacks domain expertise given how he asked to rewrite Twitter stack to the devs after it was bought

If you're talking about the domain of startups and companies themselves though, I'll give you that



His domain expertise is running a high performance engineering team. I think he has a good record of that.


I don’t remember mentioning Musk once in my comments. He’d also be a poor choice. They should stick with a european who understands the challenges of start-up high tech in europe.

I am in fact talking about start-ups and tech as a domain. That’s the area at issue so they should hire euros who understand those challenges well to fix them.


> Elon Musk lacks domain enterprise

What does this mean? I can't parse it.


Sorry, I meant expertise not enterprise


Ah, okay. I still don't quite know what it means. He clearly has something, as he's launched/run various successful and wildly innovative companies.

I think that's different to someone allocating public funds well. In my very limited experience of that in the UK, the people involved were completely unaware of what to do, and were convinced by salespeople and partisan semi-internal contractors with a bias. If Elon Musk wants to risk his own money on an internal decision at Twitter, so be it. That's a lot better than risking somebody else's money forcibly extracted from their pockets.


Knowledge of the domain he launches company of. I'll give him that he's great at launching and probably managing companies, he's still not an expert in the technical side of the field his companies operate in

I answered because the guy above me complained about lack of domain expertise


Ah yes I understand. I think for me the difference isn't just domain expertise, although it is a little bit. It's more whose money you're risking. If investors want to give Elon Musk some of their money to try something, I don't care, as it's not my money to lose.




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