I think having no experience is an advantage in industries which have become stagnant. If the industry is stagnant, than in a sense, most people in the industry

I think having no experience is an advantage in industries which have become stagnant. If the industry is stagnant, than in a sense, most people in the industry is a failure. I'd compare this to visual programming. There is a small click of people in visual programming who have been at it for decades. They are failures, as none of their projects or ideas have had any value. Taking advice from them is worse than useless. Edit: I changed what I wrote, so as to not claim that "everyone" is a failure, some people worling in visual programming are still having fresh ideas. But they don't have the attitude of being "industry insiders" the ones with fresh ideas are the least arogant and offputting to outsiders. They are the ones who are least likely to put someone like Elon down as being inexperienced.