He comes across as average to slightly above average IQ so he's not stupid. Definitely not a genius though. Just a really, really great self promoter who likes to take credit for other people's work.
IQ is to intelligence what counting lines of code is to developer performance.
IQ just measures logical thinking ability anyway. It is a very narrow measurement. It says nothing about a humans empathy, social skills etc. Many people with a high IQ might have handicaps which affect their executive function and they struggle with life.
I have about the same opinion of him, but there’s still something i don’t understand : to build something like tesla or even more space x, you need to attract extremely talented indivuals. How do they keep working for musk if he’s a total fraud ?
They are paid to work on what they see as an extremely cool project. They feel special because they work there, and for that I can totally imagine that they are fine having that guy as the CEO.
100% that. I my 20s I would have overworked myself at SpaceX without remorse. But doing that for Twitter?! Ridiculous
Have you seen him talking about SpaceX engineering? He seems pretty clueful to me.