SpaceX and, for a time, Tesla. PayPal was already a success when he conned his way in. What other successes has he had? Twitter imploded when he took over, Boring company was never real, FSD at Tesla will never be real. And SpaceX is succeeding because they have a team dedicated to keeping him away from decision making.

What he's had is an army of internet bots pumping up his supposed credentials (visible even in the voting patterns here on YN)

It does if those successes aren’t based on you at all, which they’re not.

In every instance, a lot of other people did all the work. Musk provided funds, which a machine could do.

And, he did fail. A lot. But the more money you have, the more you can fail.

The jury is still out if Tesla is is still a success, losing 50% of sales each year for the few next years could clearly go toward bankruptcy.