I don't think that was intended as an argument that Starlink or Tesla doesn't exist but that there has been many not entirely truthful promises made when building the brands. Tesla exists, but some investors really believed it was to be taken private, or perhaps even that Full Self Driving would be capable of earning money while you sleep, or any other of a thousand more or less realistic promises that has been publicly made.

I do wish that the Paypal statement would be a bit more nuanced though. Yes, Musk made a lot of money on the dot-com hype by way of Paypal. And he seems to have built strong friendships from that, weirdly with the same people that fired him. But his involvement in Paypal was that he let it buy the startup he was in and demanded to be CEO. He then only showed interest in throwing out the FreeBSD it was built on and replace it with NT (which was the hottest fad at the time) and to rename the company to "X". Neither happened, and he was quickly let go before the company risked bankruptcy. It's rather far fetched to go from that to "changing the Internet". Paypal won and X didn't.