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I’ll take the downvotes. It’s both obviously. PayPal is dope and still going strong, Tesla single handedly made the electric car viable, spaceX brought reusable rockets a thing and internet connectivity to rural communities (me included).
I used to be a fanboy but now loathe the guy. It’s ok to hate but don’t downplay his contribution to society.
Paypal is not from Musk, and he was eventually ousted when he tried to rebrand it to X.
Tesla is also not of his own. He pretty much just bought an already working company.
I have no idea about Space X, but Paypal and Tesla are absolutely not from Elon Musk. He just happened to cross roads with those companies and invest his emerald money in those.
If he contributed to those companies, it's via money, not ideas and intellect.
SpaceX's reusable rockets is from SpaceX if I understand it correctly but...
Obviously musk didn't build the rocket or planned the rocket but that is not the point.
Nasa had plans for reusable rockets but for the longest time, the financial risk of development was higher than the value of reusable rockets. SpaceX didn't care about the financial risk because they needed thousands of satellites for the most brain dead idea ever, starlink and because Elon is bad with money (Twitter...)
So SpaceX was "successful" because they were crazy enough to run 2 extremely dangerous projects.
Also don't forget government funds