How does someone with no business acumen get to be the richest person in the world?

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

Well, you dug deep. A pity you didn’t actually read further:

@Stranger_On_A_Train

The first failure of the Falcon 1 booster was due to the (entirely inappropriate) use of an aluminum fastener. Their explanation: we thought the more expensive fastener would be better, despite NAS and NASA guidelines to avoid the use of fastener alloys prone to stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in critical joining applications. (“The irony is we are replacing them with a cheaper component to increase reliability,” he said. No, Elon, that’s not irony, it’s bad reliability assessment and component selection.)

That SpaceX has enjoyed the success that it has is entirely due to the efforts of the many skilled and talented engineers working there, and almost not at all from any supposed expertise or ‘leadership’ brought by Elon Musk.

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