His product reveals could be so much more impactful and inspiring did he not jump between points he's trying to make and stutter his way through the entire presentation.
So basically, public speaking skills are important for people who have nothing remarkable to say.
[1] There have since been allegations that he mixed a nontrivial amount of fiction in with his nonfiction.
Take this as inspiration that’s its not just all smooth talking bullshit artists who get to become billionaires.
That's how you get WeWork.
Giving "hundreds of these presentations" is not a measure of one's ability to present well.
So, yes. On delivering them. He's really hard to follow. Musk is a bad speaker.
That fact doesn't diminish in any way what he has accomplished.
> Take this as inspiration that’s its not just all smooth talking bullshit artists who get to become billionaires.
Well, sure. I'd rather have more Musk than more Neumann; but that literally has nothing to do with the opinion I was expressing.
You're just judging him by the most superficial attribute: the cadence of his speech.
An attribute that he cannot change, btw, because that's how he speaks.
The content was great.
He knows what's he's talking about, he's direct, he doesn't bullshit and what he talks about is inspiring.
Starship presentation was 10x better than, say, the polished and perfectly delivered Apple keynote full of cliches like "this is the best Foo we've ever done".
What SpaceX/Tesla/Elon Musk accomplished is truly awe-inspiring.
His delivery makes it really hard to follow, that is all.
It's a bit like singing competitions - it's as if everyone thinks that to be a public speaker you have to do it the same way as everyone who is in 'The voice' or whatever - being cast from the same mould. He's more like the Mark E Smith of presentations.
You should look at his very first presentations way back in the day, and you will see how much he has improved in terms of public speaking.