Musk has nothing to do with anything at SpaceX. He has absolutely no skills or education in designing or operating rockets. SpaceX is so successful because of how little involvement Musk has with it.
I can read up on an algorithm and explain it to people, it doesn't mean it's my own intellectual accomplishment to repeat it.
And then there's SpaceX, which is like 70% cheaper than the alternatives, wildly profitable, launched a constellation of thousands of satellites, etc., etc.
Musk likes rockets. He has technical chops. If good technical leadership is so cheap, why is SpaceX so far ahead?
I understand that the man is kind of nuts these days but we underestimate him at our own risk.
"He has technical chops"
Not in rockets he doesn't. Or programming.
" If good technical leadership is so cheap, why is SpaceX so far ahead?"
Because of Gwynne Shotwell