I see a lot of young SV types thinking they want to build a deep tech space company. And they can. But it requires a couple years of deep training in of aeronautics and physics before you even know what's going on.
Elon for instance spent years studying space on his own before launching SpaceX. Elon's at a different level, but we can at least learn a few things from him and SpaceX.
Oh, most people don't start off rich? Oh what a shame.
Elon bought Tesla, Elon is only vaguely a part of SpaceX, and every single other venture he has been involved with has either gone nowhere, been a scam/grift/lie (boring company, hyperloop, neurolink though it shouldn't be judged just yet) or even classic nepotism with Solar roofing.
Elon is such a good businessman, which is why he bought Twitter at the peak of it's valuation, continually flakes on all it's bills, publicly admits to losing half of that peak value, saddled it with a billion dollar a year debt, erased any brand recognition it might have to replace it with a stupid domain name he has been obsessed with for twenty years, lost half of the advertising revenue, blocked it off from public access, fired anyone who isn't a sycophant, and repeats really dumb conspiracy theories about fucking everything.
How rich did Elon start off?
His payoff from paypal is not something most people will have access to. The dot com boom was basically a lottery.
Compaq managed to sell AltaVista for $2.3 billion 6 months later and not long before the crash so maybe it wasn't the stupidest move on their side.
Elon family riches is uncertain: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-dad-emerald-mine
Not saying he isn't one of the greatest businessmen in history (well... assuming he's running Twitter to the ground for shits & giggles anyway) but selling a company for hundreds of millions back in those days does not necessarily was not necessarily that different from winning the lottery (being at the right time and the right place was enough).
And now make money in another, partly self-created psychosis
>They falsify so much
What do you even mean by that? Whom did Tesla scam?
Yes, he was fortunate to be born above an arbitrary rich/poor line that many other people weren't. How about instead of judging him based on something he had no control over (the irony in that judgement is palpable), judge him for what he has done, regardless of where he started from.
I'm not at all a Musk fanboy but he is undeniably a "great" person. He's got ~several~ achievements that would make him a great person, which reinforces the point even more.
What does being a founder have to do with being a doctor?
Or a physicist for that matter?
There are also a lot of space companies focusing on a narrow niche that doesn't involve rockets — sometimes imagery (Planet, other satellites), sometimes 3D printing, etc. It's not like deep training in aeronautics will make you an expert in 3D printing in space - there's not a 101 guide to the space, it's novel tech.
So you're saying that the people who designed and launched the Viking lander back in the 70s (it landed on Mars when Musk was about 5) were amateurs?
Well as far as Mars exploration is concerned they achieved much more than him with basically stone age tech compared to what's available now...