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Ask HN: Elon Musk's companies can't fail. What other companies can't fail?

by aharonovich on 12/29/14, 12:38 PM with 2 comments

Elon Musk's companies all share one common trait - they work as high tech companies and compete with low tech companies. Such companies can't fail as the methodology of high tech companies is superior to low tech companies- talent, automation, short release cycles etc. Uber immediately comes to mind, which other companies can you think about?

  • by dalke on 12/29/14, 1:02 PM

    How did you validate your hypothesis? Why aren't all the famous dot-com failures (Pets.com, Webvan, etc.) which worked at "internet time" counter-examples? Or the continued non-success of Virgin Galactic, which proposed that private space tourism could be possible by 2013?

    Without validation, I'll continue to believe your hypothesis is more wishful thinking than meaningful.

  • by rpwverheij on 12/29/14, 12:58 PM

    Elon musk's companies are doing well now, but and he and his companies were really on the edge failing not too long ago, so "can't fail" is not really a good way of putting it.

    http://uk.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-on-failure-tesla-ban...