I think Elon’s strategy is that he hires workaholics like himself. It’s not a scalable general purpose strategy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hwxc17/docum...
His real full time job is watching alt-right videos and memes on YouTube and 4chan.
It isn't hard to imagine someone spending 16 hours of working and then going home and playing a game and putting in money to make themselves more powerful in the game.