Anecdotally I used to think he was actually pretty smart and at the least good at building businesses around good ideas back when Tesla was relatively young and

Anecdotally I used to think he was actually pretty smart and at the least good at building businesses around good ideas back when Tesla was relatively young and SpaceX was his only other really large venture. In the decade since though my impression has really soured. I'd hesitate to call myself a fan-boy of Musk ever though.