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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...
Musk was not a original founder of the company but was certainly the heart and sole of the company and the reason behind its success. The original founders were no longer involved when Tesla was on death watch and not expected to survive. The products that saved Tesla were all post Musk involvement in the company and the funding to develope those products either came from or were sourced by Musk.