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by nverno 1300 days ago
Judging by some of the old patents he's filed [1], I'd guess he has at least a decent understanding of the tech involved. Probably less so, when it comes to the details of more modern distributed systems, but I also wouldn't be surprised if he's spent some effort towards all that as well - he's been working in/around pretty cutting edge tech for quite a while. Could he sit down and code it himself? probably not, but that's hardly required in his situation.

1. https://patents.justia.com/inventor/elon-musk

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Musk was fired from PayPal because he wanted to replace all the Unix servers with Windows.
Source?
The CEO get to put his name on the company's patents, yes.