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by oxplot·4y ago·view on hn ↗
> He didn't even found Tesla

What's your point? Any dimwit with a couple thousand dollars can found a company and register a trademark.

> he acquired a ready-made idea / plan

Plans and ideas are aplenty. If I got a dime for every time someone said they had an idea for an app at a dinner party, I'd be a billionaire by now.

> just poured his (daddy's African mine) money.

He poured all the money he had made from PayPal in which he had poured the money he had made from Zip2. His "daddy" gave him b/w $20K-$30K. Anyone with half decent credit history can get a loan multiple of that. I don't see millions of Elon Musks out there. And all of the above is less than $400 mil. At the time, Bill Gates, and others had dozens of billions in cash (ie orders of magnitude more money) than Elon.

> I'm very concerned with this cult of Elon...

I'm very concerned that people don't seem to be able to do a dozen Google searches and get their facts straight and just repeat junk they hear.