People who act like he’s a bumbling idiot that falls into success are foolish. Has he had some advantages, sure, but dude makes the most of his opportunities and creates a lot of his own success.
From his wiki bio:
He moved to California in 1995 to attend
Stanford University, but dropped out after two days to instead pursue a business career, co-founding the web software company
Zip2 with his brother
Kimbal; the startup was acquired by
Compaq for $307 million in 1999. The same year, Musk co-founded the online bank
X.com, which merged with
Confinity in 2000 to form
PayPal.
eBay bought PayPal in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an
aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, and is its CEO and chief engineer. In 2004, he was an early investor in the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.). He became its chairman and product architect, eventually assuming the position of CEO in 2008. "
Let me assure you, even that is charitable. He profited off his brothers work, bought his way into Tesla. That's pretty much it. He's not an imbecile, but he's no genius. He's SBF.