• Alloi@lemmy.world
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    if daddy gave me several hundred million dollars and a copy of the intelligent investor id also be a " self made billionaire entrepeneur "

  • MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world
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    I haven’t dug deep into this dude, but I was told by somebody I trust that he’s not an entrepreneur…but rather was a kid with access to wealth who was “smart” enough to buy up a bunch of companies.

    His title of “entrepreneur” is myth making…not unlike Elon Musk, and a lot like Kevin O’Leary: He didn’t invent any technology or concepts…his strength was exploiting a generation who didn’t understand technology. Once his myth was in motion, inertia did the rest. Simply being young when he started did all the heavy lifting…and I guess Trump also got romanced.

    It really bothers me that being selfish and getting lucky - and most of all having money - is what we call an entrepreneur. The word used to be reserved for people who actually put sweat equity into a novel concept.

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      The word used to be reserved for people who actually put sweat equity into a novel concept.

      Naw, that was just the hype.

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      Honestly NASA has had worse administrators over the years, at least isaacman seems to care about the success of the agency. If nothing else, we can say for certain that this is a guy who loves everything about space, so I expect he’ll do his best.