One could call it Elonism as an evolution of entrepreneurial capitalism. Had Elizabeth Holmes taken the time to build an influencer army instead of doing PR the traditional way, she might not be in prison.

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rchaud 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

She's in prison because she defrauded enterprise customers. If she went B2C, she'd probably be head of the FTC by now.

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vlyan 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

she was just a decade too early. in the current year the media would make a kulturkampf battle out of it and she'd walk.

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trimethylpurine an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Unlikely. The product didn't work. It was terminal no matter what PR was thrown at it.

Elon has some functional products in markets where he has no competition, and they work.

Starlink works and sells. FSD drives untrained routes. No competition in either market.

	▲	Zigurd an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The Theranos machine also did stuff. Not as close to actual working as FSD. More like NeuroLink but without the dead lab animals. Or you could compare it to Enron. They actually did have a market in fiber capacity. It kind of did what it said did.