Still, I'm genuinely baffled by how someone as childish, petty, and seemingly clueless as him became a billionaire
being insane and a nigger in a world filled with upstanding whites. Like you know how Paypal gives you $20 for signing up? Elon came up with that in the company he had called X, it lead to him having like a million subscribers to his bullshit website, which meant Paypal had to give him like 40% of the company in stock when they brought X because it was a "competitor"
That move meant his small million dollars became billions when the IPO hit. From there he decided to go headfirst into electric cars, despite every upstanding white knowing all the flaws of electric cars and that it was a foolish idea, Elon did a takeover of Tesla which at the time just brought Lotus cars and switched the ICE engine with an electric one, and Elon demanded they make their own cars, and a shitload of them instead of 10 a month like they were originally doing. turns out battery tech came a long way plus government subsidies meant it was absurdly profitable in a way people didn't realize so he went from just a few billion dollars to the richest man on earth.
Elon then used his status as "the real life tony stark" because of his heavy investment in Tesla and SpaceX to basically trick investors that he was as legit as his status, that in term meant unfairly high valuations. and that brings us to where we are today.
Elons a master of "promising the stars and settling for the moon" style showcases and he's usually off by at least half of how long his predictions take to come true.
Plus pre-social media Elon's eccentric personality was kept behind closed doors, so reddit and the rest of the internet only heard the good stuff until the late 2010s.
If he isn’t a genius engineer,
He's not a fucking retard. As this interview shows he at least knows enough to get by when it comes to a lot of the stuff Tesla does
While he isn't inventing the stuff himself he at least knows more than the average Joe and knows enough of the ins and outs to understand where there's a problem and the possible solutions. in terms of sports, sure he's not lebron james but he's at least college scholarship level good at the engineering and tech part of his companies, and that's enough.
The thing with CEOs they're the face of the company, for better and worse and that's why they're always from the marketing areas of the companies. Woz didn't even think Apple could be more than a hobby, he thought of it as a big boy version of a lemonade stand, Jobs was the one that really saw that people would want a prebuilt computer in their home. Robert Iger got his start in weatherman and then a sports anchor, which is why he has such an amazing ability to bullshit disney shareholders on bad numbers today, while Chapek despite knowing everything inside and out couldn't hack it as CEO.
the CEO has to lead the way, and say what you will about Elon, he gives people a certain trust that whatever cunt is really in charge of X probably wouldn't. same with Tesla, people don't realize Tesla solar bullshit is all his brother's responsibility, it failed under him so Elon illegally bailed him out by having Tesla buy up Solar city at an unfairly high value and let him continue on, but its become profitable because its not some normal cowboy Afrikaan, but Elon preaching about solar panels the size of roof tiles. the CEO sets the company culture and gives the employees and customers a sense of how things will be different.
the ability to tell the types of psychos at black rock or vanguard or wherever that they can guarantee a ROI by investing in your fantasizes is a very niche talent, so despite his retarded nature, Elon became the richest man on earth because he magically becomes Chris Farley at the end of tommy boy once he's in the room with these investors and experts.
Disclaimer: i wouldn't say i am a fan of Elon but i did defend him a lot after the 3 successfully launched and up until the H1-b stuff, but he has gotten away with a fuckload of white collar crimes between Solar City and the model 3 roll out and some of the SpaceX fuckery but his record from 2018-2023 has been mostly great.
