[mhotchen]

If you listen to the people who have worked closely with him from SpaceX[1], themselves heavy hitters in space industry which is a heavy hitting industry full of ridiculously smart people, it's clear he is simply on another planet. He might not be the world's most knowledgeable person about rocket engine design, but he's up there, and he's up there on every facet of the engineering of an unbelievably complex machine. And manufacturing, and modeling, industrial design, physics, electrical engineering, analytics, software engineering, and many, many related disciplines.

And he has a vision beyond what anyone else can see. He makes bold moves that don't always pay off, but do more often than not

He's simply a monster. That's why no-one else can keep up

I think it's a real shame how he represents himself in public, and how the public sees him

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...

[aeternum]

I think that putting low value on what other's think is one of the aspects that makes him so successful.

If he gave more credence to popular/public opinion, he would never have started a rocket company, car company, nor would have made some of the seemingly crazy (but ultimately successful) design choices that people said were insane.

[atleastoptimal]

This is the Occam's razor explanation for his success imo, makes more sense than him being the most successful fraud in human history

[kennethrc]

> it's clear he is simply on another planet

... or as some figure, trying to build up enough tech here to get back to it :)