The cult of personality is based around his ability to turn “nothing” into gold, lets break this down. Tesla - Took an already well engineered Lotus chassis an

The cult of personality is based around his ability to turn “nothing” into gold, lets break this down. Tesla - Took an already well engineered Lotus chassis and electrified it. There were plenty of companies around that did the same thing, he just had the PR abilities to elevate it to the next step. As for the next step, look up the Henry Fisker/Tesla lawsuits regarding the design of the Model S. Space-X - Purchased some of the admittedly best engineered rocket engines to come out of the Soviet Union, the RD-180. It was a surplus closed cycle combustion (efficient) left over from the Energia/Buran program. They then reverse engineered it, and built a small single bell model. This fact seems to have been scrubbed from the internet. This was all to win the Ansari X Prize. Then he tries to revise his own history by selling a bullshit ICBM story. If memory serves this was on a PBS Nova doc around the xprize. There is a specific scene where Elon walks by his newly purchased russian engines. Now he has the gall to use US protectionist laws to block ULA from doing the same thing?!!!! I was an admitted member of the Elon cult until I saw him for who he is. Spoiled entitled snake oil salesman manchild. The contributions of 10000s of employees in Spacex and Tesla are what make those companies great.