SHEFIK: nejde o to jestli a jak si to pujcil, ale spis o to ze on porad asocialne musi vsem vnucovat jak je jediny skutecny self-made genius a zachrance lidstva a ostatni jsou idioti co mu akorat stoji v ceste.

SATAI: já měl za to že ty opravdu důležitý API jsou už teď placený - u soudu s Amber Heard ten expert ukazoval výstupy z nejakejch placenejch Api z Twitteru a říkal že to stojí tisíce dolarů.

opravdu zajímavé.

taky bude zajímavé až někdo použije to nové placené API a ono bude obsahovat chybu, tak bude pak Twitter platit u soudu damages?

Beware self-made ‘genius’ entrepreneurs promising the earth. Just look at Elon Musk | Kenan Malik | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/20/beware-self-made-genius-entrepreneurs-promising-earth-just-look-at-elon-musk

The icon of the self-made entrepreneur of genius has survived only because of fabulous state subsidies. Nor is it just public money that Musk arrogates.

According to his biographer Ashlee Vance, Musk constantly appropriates for himself the credit for the work of his engineers and programmers.

“I don’t really have a business plan,” he has boasted, never letting, in the words of Vance, “the fact that he knew very little about [an] industry’s nuances bother him”.

Musk’s real genius is in creating an aura around himself, of making vast promises and getting people to believe that he can deliver. Sometimes he does deliver; many times he does not. It is an approach, however, that yields dividends in an age in which people yearn for the visionary, without particularly scrutinising the vision, who will on the disrupter without necessarily caring what the disruption will be.

Inherited Wealth & The Myth of the Self-Made American Billionaire
https://www.bschools.org/blog/myth-of-self-made-billionaire

The concept of the “self-made man” is as outdated as its origins. Coined in 1842 by Senator Henry Clay, it was used (and is still used) to describe those who owe their successes primarily to themselves, and not outside conditions, such as inheritance. Still, the self-made myth persists largely because financially successful people want to believe that they are chiefly responsible for their own success, while those who aspire to financial success want to believe that all it takes is hard work and dedication.

Hard work and dedication still matter. Individual achievement still deserves recognition. But these things don’t operate in a vacuum—and massive wealth is never solely attributable to the actions of a single person. The nation also maintains a tabloid-esque obsession with Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk. A defining narrative of the self-made billionaire is that entrepreneurial success comes primarily from an enormous appetite for risk. But a 2003 study shows that America’s nascent entrepreneurs are actually more risk-averse than non-entrepreneurs, and suggests that most entrepreneurs are motivated by non-financial elements.

Not all risks are equal. Entrepreneurs like Gates or Zuckerberg, both of whom come from well-off families, are able to take on more risk, and defer self-payment longer, than entrepreneurs without such a safety net. Given the high failure rate of new businesses, the ability to tolerate higher levels of risk and unprofitability for a longer period of time amounts to a significant advantage.

Not all failures are equal, and the consequences of failure look very different depending on an entrepreneur’s starting position.

INK_FLO: Co to je za blábol?
Jestli někdo zvládne z 30k postavit sta miliardovej bussines, tak to zcela určitě je "self made man".
Víš co je na světě zkrachovalců, kterým rodiče dali 30k a oni z toho neudělali nic?
Nýmandů kterým rodiče dohodili kšefty a kontakty s vlivnejma lidma?
No a mezi nima je pár takovejch který, to zůročili a postavili globální bussines a jsou z nich Miliardáři.

INK_FLO: "Musk's revelation about his father's financial situation in the '90s comes after a Berkeley professor and former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, claimed on Twitter that 'self-made billionaires' are a myth and Musk came from a family that owned an emerald mine in Apartheid South Africa. - hehe trochu OT, ale akekolvek vyjadrenie od Reicha smerom k milionarom (ci uz je to pravda alebo nie), ktory tweetuje o tom aki su milionari spatni a pritom si sam uctuje nehorazne honorare za svoje prednasky o nerovnosti rozdelenia bohatstva mi pride ako hyperbola pokrytectva :)

Robert Reich Makes 36% More Than Average CEO and Gets $40k for a One-hour Talk Vs. Average Worker Pay of $46k/year | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/robert-reich-makes-36-more-than-average-ceo-and-gets-40k-for-a-one-hour-talk-vs-average-worker-pay-of-46kyear/

LoL

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1621025421637857280

KOUDY: btw. u toho oblíbeného mýtu o self-made manovi se občas zapomíná na to, že ne každej self-made man mohl začít tím, že mu jeho otec pomohl půjčkou 28 000 dolarů na podporu rozjetí prvního businessu (což pak Musk různě popíral nebo objasňoval, aby to ten mýtus nenarušovalo).

"Musk's revelation about his father's financial situation in the '90s comes after a Berkeley professor and former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, claimed on Twitter that 'self-made billionaires' are a myth and Musk came from a family that owned an emerald mine in Apartheid South Africa.

The original tweet also mentioned other billionaires such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. "Elon Musk came from a family that owned an emerald mine in Apartheid South Africa. Bill Gates’ mom helped Microsoft get a deal with IBM. Jeff Bezos’ garage-based start was funded by a quarter-million dollar investment from his parents. 'Self-made billionaires' are a myth," Reich tweeted alongside a video.

tady je rozebranej ten první business se zip2 aneb "History is written and re-written by the victors."

How did Elon Musk finance his first venture? - Quora
https://www.quora.com/How-did-Elon-Musk-finance-his-first-venture

ad x/paypal

When it comes to PayPal, Elon Musk is often described as the cofounder of the platform hailed as the pioneer of the digital payments industry. PayPal is one of the biggest reasons why Musk carries a wonder boy PR.

Let us tell you one small fun fact- PayPal is the successor of a company originally named Confinity that came into being in 1998. Interestingly, Confinity wasn’t founded by Elon Musk, rather it was a brainchild of Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek.

The first digital payments version of Confinity was launched in 1999. By that time, a remarkably similar platform called x.com had come into being. X.com was founded by Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne and Ed Ho. Musk served as the x.com CEO.

In 2000, the two digital payments firms got merged with each other. However, combining the two firms did not turn out out be very successful. Elon Musk took over as the CEO in April 2000 and was fired in October 2000.

Later, Peter Thiel took over as the CEO of the merged company and the company got rechristened as PayPal in the year June 2001. PayPal launched its first IPO in February 2002 and later eBay purchased it for $1.5 billion. Elon Musk, who still held a stake in PayPal, made a windfall gain of $180 million from the sake and suddenly became super-rich. Later, he would invest this money into other ventures like SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity.

So, Elon Musk was not a founder of Confinity which would go on to become PayPal. When Confinity was rechristened as PayPal, he wasn’t a CEO of the entity formed by merger of Confinity and x.com. Nor was Elon Musk the CEO of PayPal when it released its first IPO or when it subsequently signed a sale agreement with eBay.

Yet, Elon Musk has become known as the founder of PayPal and the pioneer of the digital payments industry.

KOUDY: nez jsi prisel ty, docela se sem rakety hazely. Nemohli bychom se k tem casum vratit?

KOUDY: furt nechapes a asi nikdy nepochopis. Neres.