[sidibe]

The latter is just his nature, the former was a combination of extremely high risk tolerance, confidence and luck. I'm sure there's been many Elons but they floundered or got shut down before they got so much money they could keep doubling down until they win (for a while).

[MichaelRazum]

Exactly just luck and money. For sure he is just dumb. Just a dumb lucky guy who somehow got into a phd program for physics in some dumb university...

[Larrikin]

Sounds like he might be a decent physicist.

The vast majority of comments on this website are from smart people that studied computer science, discussing many topics, talking completely out of their butt and often times being totally wrong about subjects outside of their field.

Being educated in one field doesn't always translate into other fields.

[pr07ecH70r]

Don't misunderstand me. I never said he is neither dumb nor ingenious. I am just sharing my observation, on how it looks like in this case.