He once worshipped Elon Musk. Now the owner of Musk Construction is making a big change.

[SheltieLover]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/27/musk-construction-renaming-company-elon-musk-politics/83137374007/

When Steve Riabov started his Silicon Valley construction company six years ago, his hero was another business entrepreneur: Elon Musk.

Riabov thought if he modeled his home kitchen and bathroom remodeling business after the "bold, adventurous, and daring" tech leader, it would help his company blossom into a multi-million-dollar home-building enterprise. So he named his firm Musk Construction.

But in recent months, Riabov, 35, has become disillusioned with his idol, who has metaphorically and literally taken a chainsaw to the federal government as head of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency. Riabov, a native of Ukraine, was also deeply upset by Musk's recent comments about his home country.

So, he's now committed to purging Musk from Musk Construction ‒ even though it will cost him between $15,000 and $20,000 to get a new company trademark and permits. And he's already removed the Musk Construction logo from the company's red Tesla vehicles, along with the vanity plates, "MUSK UP" and "MUSK INC."

Much more at link, including business owner quotes in response to fleaon's comments disparaging President Zelenskyy.

[True Dough]

1. The owner of Musk Construction

never realized that Elon could dig such a deep hole!

[SheltieLover]

2. Ha! Very true, no doubt!

[UTUSN]

3. K&R

[SheltieLover]

4. Thx for kick

Schadenfreude for our community to have this man change his business name.

[madaboutharry]

5. He could have saved himself the headache

if he had simply named his business “Steve’s Construction Company.”

[SheltieLover]

6. Lol. No kidding!

[Cha]

7. Thank You, Sheltie... I love it when People Wake

Up and Realize they've been Had by Mump and the idea of what Mump actually is .

Props and Good on Steve Riabov

[SheltieLover]

9. Mahalo, Cha!

I love it when people wake up, too!!!

🌺

[Cha]

11. Aloha, Sheltie

for Steve Riabov

[LS0999]

8. I knew about the Trump cult but I didn't realize Elon had one

Is this because of the propaganda from marketing Elon Musk as some type of genius rocket scientist entrepreneur? In reality he really is just a lunatic Neo Nazi con man who inherited money from his daddy to buy his way into tech companies..

[SheltieLover]

13. Likely the marketing of fleaon as a genius.

Pfffft.

[maxrandb]

10. Same thing happened to Hitler Roofing and Handyman in 1945

Was Grand Wizard Remodeling already taken?

Maybe Hawk-Tuah "Handy"-Man would have worked out better in this current shitshow world.

Lie down with Musk, wake up with Nazis.

[Uncle Joe]

12. I adopted a cat from a veterinarian about two years ago.

and named her Bernice Sanders.

To date I have no cause to change her name.

Thanks for the thread SheltieLover.