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Everything you said is true but there is an alternative perspective: Elon founded two of the most successful companies in existence. Both companies heavily innovated on hard technological problems in order to achieve commercial success. Hence, he's an operator with experience solving difficult challenges, making him qualified for the board seat.

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"Two of the most successful companies in existence"

Tesla, at bill profit, is about half an order of magnitude away from being in the top 10 most profitable: https://www.investopedia.com/the-world-s-10-most-profitable-...

So surely a successful company. At this juncture, one of the most successful ever in existence? Hype.

Profit is not the only way to measure success.

Similar numbers if you use revenue. You're free to suggest alternative measures.

Now, I'm not saying that Tesla is not on their way, but they are not yet there

Elon was not a founder of Tesla. Assuming that was one of the two you were referring to, not that it matters much?

And he wasn't really a founder of PayPal, although that's a bit less clear cut.

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