Because HE IS a superman, an extremely gifted individual for what he does. Like a Messi in Soccer Michael Jordan in Basket,or Sampras, Federer in tennis, there

Because HE IS a superman, an extremely gifted individual for what he does. Like a Messi in Soccer Michael Jordan in Basket,or Sampras, Federer in tennis, there are people that are-was really much better in their field than anybody else. "but some people act like he is achieving all this on his own when he has thousands of people working for him who are among the best minds available." This is exactly where is is a superman, managing other people, if you want to ignore that Elon wrote software on his own and made a ton of money from it as a kid. I know that you never managed bright people because you consider it easy. You imply that if you left them alone they will do bright work. E.g You could have geniuses writing code that are troublemakers, depressive or just so cynical that destroy the company from inside out. Every single stereotype of person could be poisonous for the company if you don't manage it well. The proof that this is not easy is that there are lots of big companies full of brilliant people that flop in the market. I had seen lots of them, in fact my own experience tells me that incompetency at the top is the rule, not the exception.