I think Elon was pretty clear that he considers the situation to be seriously wrong, hence the extreme approach. It's a refreshing attitude; this sort of problem is common in most large companies.
Which sold to eBay for $1.5b
His first company was acquired by Compaq for almost half a billion.
He’s listed by Forbes as one of the top 25 most powerful people on earth.
Tesla is a 15 year old company.
I feel like “startup founder” should not the operating phrase here.
> you know he founded PayPal, right?
Confinity (Levchin, Thiel, Nosek, no Musk) launched PayPal in late 1999. X.com (founded by Musk) merged with Confinity in March 2000. In no way can Musk be considered a "founder" of PayPal.
> His first company was acquired by Compaq for almost half a billion.
Zip2? $340M. Nowhere near half a billion and that was in 1999 at the height of the ridiculous tech bubble.
The man's done a lot of stuff - there's no need to embellish them.