So much of what he does can be seen as driven by pure self interest despite his altruistic, saver of humanity persona.
He is personally set to receive tens of billions in compensation if Tesla hits its targets. Which no matter who the person is has a significant influencing effect.
This. I used to be a big fan, but this fact has become transparently obvious in the past few years and makes it really hard to like the guy.
Now I'm just waiting for his big announcement that he's putting together a crack team to develop a COVID-19 cure/vaccine, at which he'll throw a few million dollars and achieve nothing other than to stoke his ego and reputation. I hope I'm wrong.
So much of what he does can be seen as driven by pure self interest despite his altruistic, saver of humanity persona.
He is personally set to receive tens of billions in compensation if Tesla hits its targets. Which no matter who the person is has a significant influencing effect.