Well look at Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Totally different skill sets but they were complimentary, with Jobs largely taking Wozniak’s work and packaging it up in a form that sells.

“Slapping a name on other people’s work” is something leaders do. They also typically are the ones who gather those people together and create the environment in which they can do their best work.

…that said, yes, I think Musk is an idiot.