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Being an outstandingly successful tech entrepreneur and being an asshole are not mutually exclusive.

Indeed, there seems to be a serious correlation.

Objectively, he's the greatest entrepreneur in American history.

I think you mean "In my opinion, subjectively..."

Who else founded 3 fortune 500 companies?

They pre-date the literal magazine, but definitely Vanderbilt, John Astor, Jay Gould, Rockefeller if you count that standard oil was broken up into multiple ones, and Moses Taylor if you count that he did not found, but rescued and built up citibank from an early stage, not unlike tesla.

Hypothetically, how you would stack Elon Musk against Grand Nagus Zek?

Zek had charisma.

You can search for persecution of Elon wherever you would like but there is none here. It’s my understanding that Shotwell is running the show there and Elon is mainly hands off. There are many achievements I believe should bear Elons name like the back-to-back live stream debacles over at xitter or the cybertruck… but he is not as involved in the engineering decisions with space-x and it shows.