Elon Musk

BarryMo

Would Quicken better if Elon Musk bought it?

MarcStone

He would like to have you believe so.

Jim_Harman

BarryMo said:

Would Quicken better if Elon Musk bought it?

I don't think so. He would fire half the employees and then a lot of the rest would quit.

Chris_QPW

@Jim_Harman I agree.  People somehow think he is some kind of superhero, but he is proved many times that he is a spoiled brat that just wants his way.

splasher

Having to sleep at the office is not my idea of a good job regardless of the number of zeros in the paycheck. 

BarryMo

Lately, I am so underwhelmed by Quicken stability and the support teams perhaps a shake-up would be good in the long term.

smayer97

Steve Jobs was a tyrant and bully by many accounts BUT he made Apple what it is today. Only time can tell what Musk will accomplish.

BTW, the opposite is to be considered too... Failure is a measure of what does not work. It alone is not the measure of a person's capability. Sometimes it takes MANY failures because one good success is achieved. 

Chris_QPW

smayer97 said:

Steve Jobs was a tyrant and bully by many accounts BUT he made Apple what it is today. Only time can tell what Musk will accomplish.

BTW, the opposite is to be considered too... Failure is a measure of what does not work. It alone is not the measure of a person's capability. Sometimes it takes MANY failures because one good success is achieved. 

Some of the people that have “accomplished the most” were terrible people.  I guess that is fine for the companies and even society in general, but isn’t so good if you are the one being abused to get that accomplishment done.

One can admire Musk’s work ethic, but not everyone wants their life to be only their job.

Chris_QPW

BTW here is another answer for the original question.

I can’t imagine him being interested in buying a tiny company in a dying industry, but lets say he did, I doubt his vision of what “person finance software” should be would line up with the majority of the current “old timer” view points of what Quicken would be.  For instance he might decide that online personal finance software is the future, and decide to stop all development on Quicken and put all the resources into Simplify.

I would imagine a full featured online version of personal finance software would appeal more to the “future users”.

Frankx

Quicken, as much as we all love it, is not - and never would be - on Elon Musk's "to do" list, in any way. shape or form.  It is way too small for him to even be aware of it.

But, to answer the question - would it be better if he bought it? - the answer would absolutely be yes, because he would infuse Quicken with whatever was needed to make that happen, regardless of the cost.

Frankx 

Rocket J Squirrel

Frankx said:

But, to answer the question - would it be better if he bought it? - the answer would absolutely be yes

He won't buy it. It doesn't handle enough digits for him.

Dollar amount - A Quicken file cannot have an entry that is larger than 99,999,999.99. This includes number of positions (shares) as well as amount of dollars.

https://www.quicken.com/support/size-or-capacity-limitations-quicken-data-file

MSStateDawg

smayer97 said:

BTW, the opposite is to be considered too... Failure is a measure of what does not work. It alone is not the measure of a person's capability. Sometimes it takes MANY failures because one good success is achieved. 

Interesting analogy. The famous Twitter user S**TMYDADSAYS once posted, "Your success as a parent is determined by your worst child. If one of your kids is a brain surgeon and the other is a hooker, you sucked as a parent." LOL