[Austiiiiii]

You know, you might as well give it up. He won't give you a free Tesla Truck no matter how brown your nose gets.

The guy's an insufferable manchild with no more actual tech chops than the average boomer, made all the more dangerous by a severe case of Dunning-Kruger. He can't distinguish between reality and sci-fi, and goes around and buys companies that he thinks will make him look like real life Tony Stark.

[gunian]

Kind of curious how do you think he got wealthy? Just right place right time

[Austiiiiii]

He started off wealthy from his dad's blood emerald enterprise. Then he really took off buying into PayPal, a middle man service for making secure money transactions online. Literally got rich off the dot-com boom. That is textbook definition of right place, right time.

Every tech company he owns, he bought. He doesn't do any of the engineering. The only genius he possesses is in creating public hype for products he has invested in. It is 100% persona.