[xyzzy21]

Yes. We already knew this.

Elon is a marvelous marketer and salesman.

He's frequently MISIDENTIFIED as the new Edison or Tesla. He's NOT that - both of those men were insanely technical and enough so the jump into technical problems and add value to work being done by their employees. Musk is not that. He's had very little to do with any technical aspects of any of his companies. But there's been plenty of PR spin to imply the opposite. That spin has always been a lie.

I've had Silicon Valley bosses just like him. Our recent president is someone with the same personality just with fewer IQ points. But the same otherwise.

[defterGoose]

I mean, he's got a physics degree and can speak knowlegeably about the domains he's in without reading off a script; that's more than you can say about the majority of CEOs in this day and age. He may have moved away from the nitty gritty day-to-day problem solving, but that's par for the course when you're heading successful companies.

Disclaimer: I don't like the dude, he's an edgelord jerk.

[DreamScatter]

Unfortunately, musk wants to present himself as if he is some kind of Tony Stark character like in the iron man movie. He also says the he doesn't care about college degrees, but I bet that all the people at SpaceX have the necessary degrees and are not drop outs, so that's probably also not really true about him either. The Tesla car company was also not founded by him but by someone else who actually engineered a car. I will give him some credit for SpaceX though, I think the company is doing well, but I doubt he is directly involved in engineering.