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People forget Musk isn't actually technically smart, he's just good at buying into and investing in already good ideas using money he got by playing the capital machine (and his parents south africa money).
He didn't found PayPal; he merged another company with them and capitalized on their already good idea.
He didn't found Tesla, he invested in them and then drove the original founders out.
He did admittedly create SpaceX, but only by bringing on good engineers from the start after failing to buy ICBM's from Russia. Yes, he tried that... spaceX has been successful only because he gave them the runway to let engineers work right.
The cult of personality is insane, he's just another average investor bro who got lucky in the crazy growth of the 90's/00s.
Tres comas, indeed.
A glorious Silicon Valley reference.
It's more than that - he failed to create PayPal so his group bought a competitor, he didn't found Tesla or spaceX - he claimed he did, then reached settlements with the actual founders to not contest his claims. He did start the boring company. It didn't get off the ground because he can't build a team
Thats right in Paypal and Tesla's cases, he bought them and then gave himself the title of founder, but he did actually found SpaceX. Per wiki: