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Founder CEOs are a different breed. There's a plenty of successful founder CEOs who don't fit the typical hired CEO pattern. Zuckerberg, Sweeney, etc.

Is Elon a founder CEO of Twitter, Tesla, or SpaceX?

Maybe founder isn't the most accurate word here. Maybe 'owner CEO', i.e. has major control of the company. He is definitely not 'hired CEO' in any of those. (also he is CTO of Twitter, not CEO).

I think he's gone a little more "experimental" and Avant Garde in his practice of the art. /s

That's the exception for someone born wealthy, buys an existing company, and installs themselves as CEO.

The source for his being born wealthy is his father. Who is known to be a conman.

For example the emerald story seems to be false. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-father-errol-never....