Read up on your history, X* failed miserably, it was so bad he was basically ousted from his own company. Later success came in spite of him. Same story for his

Read up on your history, X* failed miserably, it was so bad he was basically ousted from his own company. Later success came in spite of him. Same story for his previous and first venture, Zip2. He did not found Tesla, and arguably the company took a downturn since his takeover. Cars became unreliable and ugly (cybertruck...), and now that people are starting to associate the brand with Musk's terrible public image, sales are going down fast. The only positive was this irrationally inflated stock due to his cult following in the investor class. SpaceX is cool but received a lot of money from tax payers in the form of government contracts. And let's not mention The Boring Company, Hyperloop, Neuralink... That's the odd things with odds, with this many people on Earth, one of them was bound to get to the very top. And you don't get to the very top by working 100000x more, you get there by starting a millionaire and taking insane risks, then getting insanely lucky many times. * The first one, not Twitter. Although there's a story here too.