He didn't start Tesla. And you can thank NASA for funding SpaceX. In both cases you can thank generous government subsidies for keeping his businesses afloat un

He didn't start Tesla. And you can thank NASA for funding SpaceX. In both cases you can thank generous government subsidies for keeping his businesses afloat until they started making money. Let's also thank the thousands of engineers who made both Tesla and SpaceX work. We need to stop giving one guy all the credit.