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I want to agree with you, but Elon is not stupid and definitely had something to do with the success of Falcon 9.
What I think he is good at is having crazy innovative ideas and pushing his engineering team to make it some kind of reality. Being able to spend the time to listen to engineering, work through the issues, find ways to do things to make it work while still achieving the fundamental goals.
My guess is that he's not had the time to do that process and instead became the "do it my way or you're fired" guy. Less Elon could be bad because they have less chance to talk sense into him. He certainly didn't give up any control when he gave up his focus.
Elon is amazing at lying to people to get them to hand him money. That's his primary skill. He's extremely good at it, absolutely and undeniably true. He can tell stories like a pro (he is, it's his job).
Beyond that? No, not at all.
There are some videos of him talking tech, and it may sound impressive to laymen, but anyone with the experience of a three month internship can tell he doesn't understand shit.
Look at what he can get some when he fucks off: Falcon 9, the first few Tesla cars. Look what he does when he gets involved: fraudulent solar roofs, car tunnels that don't exist in any real way, cyber truck, Tesla semi, xAI, Twitter, starships to Mars, fake humanoid robots that can't even perform on a fake stage.
The only great thing he's actively involved in is Starlink, which is an amazing tool to funnel more venture capital into SpaceX, and a company that won't see 2030.
elon is not stupid? have you not seen or heard anything from him in the last decade?
Eh maybe "wasn't stupid" is more accurate before the brain worms got him.
i don't even think that's the case at all. if you go back you can still find stupid shit coming out of his dumbfuck busted ass face all the time. the only difference is he didn't make public statements much, so people just assumed he knew some things.
whenever he talked about anything though, he only ever impressed people who didn't have much knowledge in the field he's talking about. anyone with expertise would see through his bullshit. even back when he was generally liked and respected, astronauts weren't buying what he was selling.
he's the perfect case of "it's better to be silent and be thought an idiot than open your mouth and remove all doubt". the reason you think he "wasn't" stupid is because he didn't open his mouth we much, so at least there was doubt, and people have him the benefit of it.
I don't know, I hear conflicting stories, and all the positive ones are from long ago.