He’s been in tech business for decades, and has long history of both failed and successful projects - he knows how R&D projects work, and how rarely they delive

He’s been in tech business for decades, and has long history of both failed and successful projects - he knows how R&D projects work, and how rarely they deliver, and how never they’re there on time. He has board of directors to control him. He’s lying on purpose, because he knows he immune from any consequences. And he’s right - those lies propelled him to be one of the richest people in the world.