When has Elon said that the failures are the faults of his employees? Hell, he seldom claims that it's his success. Every Starship test flight he's congratulated the team for a job well done.

It's the random people constantly looking for excuses to not believe his successes ("he doesn'thave much to do with SpaceX" or "he stole Tesla"), as well as idiotic article headlines ("Elon Musk's SpaceX does X" etc) that have made up those ideas.

Elon is quite unique in the sense that:

- he can identify incredibly good companies and products, and (usually) is able to lift them up, fund them, and leave them mostly be. It's not him running Tesla day-to-day (nor was tesla started by him), nor is it him running SpaceX, nor...

- at the same time, everything that he's involved in directly is just abysmally stupid

Your post may or may not be correct, but does not answer the question in the comment you were responding to and has zero supporting arguments for both assertions you make.

Why don’t you think it’s fair or accurate to credit founders with the work their companies do?

Do we credit calculus to Isaac Newton, the guy who invented it, or to Charles II, the random schmuck who happened to be king at the time? Why on earth should we give founders credit for work done by other people?

Musk is a lazy ketamine addict. He doesn't do anything other than tweet at himself from his alt accounts and fail upward, disproving meritocracy in the process.

I didn’t ask about kings, repeating the question to help you:

> Why don’t you think it’s fair or accurate to credit founders with the work their companies do?

Also do you have any evidence for the either of the two attacks on Musk?

It is not fair when it deprives the people working in the company of the recognition. Those people are critical to the successes.

Why do you think crediting founders with the work their companies do means that people working in the company cannot also be credited?

They can, and they should. Sometimes it is done. But to me it feels that many times a disproportionate amount of credit goes to founders/CEOs. People even fighting over whether for example Elon is successful or not, and completely disregarding everyone else in the organization. Or course the organizations are complex, but also mostly opaque - we do not know who does what.