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Phoenixz @lemmy.ca He's a successful scammer, for sure, but at the end of the day still a scammer who got fired for incompetence and then got lucky.
46 5 ReplyPersnickityPenguin @lemm.ee A scammer who is the CEO of 2 of the most valuable companies in the US...
10 36 ReplyIHadTwoCows @lemm.ee "most valuable companies" lol
28 2 ReplyIHadTwoCows @lemm.ee That's how scammers work, yes ..
26 0 ReplyHonytawk @lemmy.zip A scammer who used his money he made through scamming to become CEO, and then to scam even more:
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Scams his employees by paying too little or not at all
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Scams his money lenders by breaking their investment
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Scams his customers by asking premium prices for underperforming products
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Scams governments out of funding
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Scams new tech startups by suing them in order to be called a founder
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Scams every person in every country his companies operate in by not paying the taxes he is owed
22 4 ReplyPersnickityPenguin @lemm.ee I wasn't talking about Twitter.
SpaceX launched 60% of three global space launch market, I would say that's pretty damn important. Also, Starlink.
In any case, it's obviously the people who work at these companies that are doing the work, not Mr muskrat.
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Flying Squid @lemmy.world
Are you going to tell us next that cigarette companies didn't scam the public when they knew that their products caused cancer and didn't reveal it because Phillip-Morris was so valuable?
How about Theranos? At peak it was worth $9 billion. Not a scam, right?
16 1 ReplyResol van Lemmy @lemmy.world
I think you meant "least valuable", because they're garbage.
I want downvotes too, you know.
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