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Elon Musk Reportedly Demanded to Become Apple CEO as Part of Potential Tesla Acquisition [Update: Musk Denies]
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Elon is crazy but also a genius. Very very bright guy. Most of them are very eccentric.
Look at Tesla and SpaceX. There is really no other position; he's a really bright guy and both are doing things others didn't dream of not too long ago- privatized space travel and mass-market electric cars. Even 10 years ago it was a fantasy; the first Roadster was a novelty.
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He sounds very desperate (Elon). I’m sure him and Tim are kicking it over the weekend… laughing at our comments and drinking/eating together.
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That's NOT even the BIG picture !
Under Cook, Apple has never acquired a company with a Founder OR CEO who has a track record of "innovation".
Why ?
Because Tim knows that person will replace him as CEO of Apple within ONE year !
Under Cook, Apple's success is primarily based-upon Financial Engineering, massive amounts of Debt for Stock Buybacks & Dividend Payouts.
But, Apple isn't the ONLY company doing so the past ten OR so years, there are many.
Regardless, I'm sure he knows precisely where he stands, he's a Bean Counter.
And, in a (private) Back Room Meeting, I'm 100% confident Cook would agree with everything I've stated here.
Under Cook, Apple has never acquired a company with a Founder OR CEO who has a track record of "innovation".
Why ?
Because Tim knows that person will replace him as CEO of Apple within ONE year !
Under Cook, Apple's success is primarily based-upon Financial Engineering, massive amounts of Debt for Stock Buybacks & Dividend Payouts.
But, Apple isn't the ONLY company doing so the past ten OR so years, there are many.
Regardless, I'm sure he knows precisely where he stands, he's a Bean Counter.
And, in a (private) Back Room Meeting, I'm 100% confident Cook would agree with everything I've stated here.
Hard to innovate when you have no money (i.e. - liquidity) to support R&D.
I expect Musk would not have lasted long as CEO - he either would have been dismissed by the Board or tossed in a shareholder lawsuit. I mean it would be John Scully all over again.
Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.
I'm confident the Board of Directors and the institutional shareholders who actually control who is CEO of Apple would keep Cook in place unless Steve Jobs somehow resurrected.
I don't understand why the Elon Musk fanbase thinks he's some innovative genius.
It's the old don't rock the boat syndrome. At their peak profits so why change?
But once those do slide, they do for everyone at some point, what will be there to catch them? That is the bigger long-term question.
That's what Apple needs: a complete dick in charge of Apple.
What exactly is Telsa (sic)? I guess Musk knows according to this site's headline:
Bitcoin rises to $32,431, Musk says Telsa watching currency
Tesla Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, has said he personally owns bitcoin, ethereum, and dogecoin. He said that he would like to see bitcoin succeed.
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Oh please.... Tim Cook is anything but a "savage". Apple has suffered under him as CEO, because at the end of the day, he was only chosen by Jobs as a successor because Jobs saw his previous experience at supply chain management as something Apple lacked. (Think back at how often Apple didn't have enough product to satisfy people wanting to buy, at launch day. Think how often Apple miscalculated and produced too many of one model of a product, and far too few of another model.) Tim should have been recruited to manage that for Apple, and picked someone more charismatic and with a better sense of what was needed for CEO.
Apple is now the laughing stock with most corporate I.T. types, because they still can't see that nobody wants a computer that's impossible to service or upgrade on your own, with as FEW ports as possible, all for a premium price. This was NOT the way Apple was going under Jobs, if you step back to, say, 2009 or 2010.
I actually find Elon to be refreshingly funny because he's not going around as a "stick in the mud" all the time, afraid to offend somebody or get quoted out of context and trashed in the media afterwards. His "half baked garbage" as you call it includes Starlink satellites that are primed to be the best broadband solution for rural users of anything we've ever had, along with multiple models of electric vehicles that have the highest customer satisfaction rate of any motor vehicle sold today. (Not to mention the fact the "giants" like GM haven't been able to catch up to things he got right back in the 2014-2015 time frame.)
Narcissistic billionaires sure have a strange sense of humor...
If true, bravo Tim.
If untrue, bravo Tim.
If untrue, bravo Tim.
😂😂😂🤣 We need a recording of this conversation. I would love to hear Tim Cook say that with his southern accent. Just imagining it is already cracking me up.
As much as I’d like to believe this story, I don’t.
I don’t think Elon is crazy enough to ask to be CEO of Apple and I can’t imagine Tim Cook cursing 😂
I don’t think Elon is crazy enough to ask to be CEO of Apple and I can’t imagine Tim Cook cursing 😂
Assuming this were true (I highly doubt it), it would be a play similar to when Apple bought NeXT and Steve Jobs ended up as CEO of Apple (again). Musk could have been angling to do the same. Except it would be foolish to telegraph that as your intent. Instead he should have just used stockholder opinion to undermine Cook as someone who has no vision and can't drive innovation like Musk can.
But really, I don't believe this story. Musk wants as much autonomy as he can get so he can push his companies to do things that nobody else is doing well enough, fast enough, cheap enough. There's no point in running a massive consumer electronics company, it's a well trodden path that isn't really changing the world as drastically as Musk aims for.
But really, I don't believe this story. Musk wants as much autonomy as he can get so he can push his companies to do things that nobody else is doing well enough, fast enough, cheap enough. There's no point in running a massive consumer electronics company, it's a well trodden path that isn't really changing the world as drastically as Musk aims for.
Everyone feels like Elon Musk is their friend, like no everything he does is for his own gain. When will the Elon tribe wake up to this? It's like the Apple tribe, none of these people care about you, stop making them your identity.
I believe Elon might have asked, I don't believe Tim answered that way though.
Gosh, he’s achieved so much but sometimes makes such poor decisions. What a weird dude.
Why do people think this is surprising?
Was he supposed to roll over and beg Tim to be his boss just because it’s Apple?
Elon is a prick but has a million times the vision of Tim.
Was he supposed to roll over and beg Tim to be his boss just because it’s Apple?
Elon is a prick but has a million times the vision of Tim.