That’s how I feel about him - that he just happens to make a lot of money doing these things. But really, it seems like he basically made his fortune on PayPal. Being rich meant he could do things like build electric cars without being locked out of the market or bought out and shut down. And then you ask yourself whether there were a dozen PayPal competitors that weren’t quite in the right place a the right time, realize that PayPal was a fluke, and start to wonder whether there aren’t dozens more Musks out there, some of whom are homeless. Musk named his electric cars after a genius inventor who died alone and impoverished despite his incredible contributions to science. Musk presumably could have ended up the same way.
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