> Without Elon, there would be no SpaceX, and no Tesla. Musk deserves credit for two great achievements. You achieve something when as a CEO you sign off a con

> Without Elon, there would be no SpaceX, and no Tesla. Musk deserves credit for two great achievements. You achieve something when as a CEO you sign off a consequential improvement in the quality of life of a lot of people, then you pass the baton and the company is still there. Tesla is just a car company that jumped early on a quite singular and unprecedented political trend (limiting ourselves for the benefit of people who'd be alive 150 years from now). If the unprecedented trend disappears, so will Tesla. Space has been driving big entities out of business ever since the Apollo program days, there is no quality of life and no ROI for us up there. Musk has nothing in the bag as a matter of accomplishments because his companies are not 'in the bag' type companies. Examples of 'in the bag' type companies are : Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tencent, Exxon, Shell etc. He's essentially a politician