Originally Posted by Macjet

Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. PayPal was founded by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek. Neuralink was co-founded by Musk plus 8 other scientents. Hyperloop was piggybacked off of a 400 year old English design.

Musk will certainly have an effect on history but he didn't conceive all off these successes out of whole cloth. Most of his 'ideas' were bought or copied. Much like his salute...