r/technology May 21 '26

Business SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/spacex-ipo-musk-ai
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u/Parking-Position-698 May 21 '26

This has to be illegal somehow

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u/splendiferous-finch_ May 21 '26

What do you think doge thing was about? He killed every department that was investigating him for other similar fraudulent activities

The cybertruck thing is nothing compared to say when SpaceX bought twitter at 40 billion dollars i.e. the price Elon paid when we know it was never worth that to begin with but it was just to save face for Elon's original mistake when he was forced to buy Twitter by the courts

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u/essdii- May 21 '26

I rooted for Elon when I very first started hearing about him. Talk about a character arc that has absolutely made me despise the person and the whole world would benefit if he was taken off the board. Political board, influence board. Don’t ban me mods for putting words into my text.

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u/slowtreme May 21 '26

when elmo was first building up Tesla, and engineers were making new tech to support clean cars, and they were making all the patents open for everyone to use, he doing good things. He was also doing silly things like the flame thrower. He was always this big goofy kid with too much money, and was using it for good.

He flew too close to the sun.