By your "make the case" criteria - has there been any business leader who clearly deserved credit?
Other players on the same team were not remotely as successful.
The owner of the team matters less to the success of the team than the participants, as is easily proven by the argument you have just made.
If Elon had consistently led successful teams, as Jordan has, then the correlationary argument would be more convincing. Since he has led a mix of failures and successes, the likely indicator is the teams that worked for him, not his own ability.
> Since he has led a mix of failures and successes, the likely indicator is the teams that worked for him, not his own ability.
Or far more likely, he knows how to assemble a team that can deliver, knows how to motivate it to succeed, and knows how to get financing for it. Which is an essential skill for an entrepreneur.
If we knew how many companies Elan has lead, and the percentage of barely-founded little companies from ~2003 which have been as successful as SpaceX and Tesla over the past 2 decades, then we could perform the calculations, and see what the odds actually are on Elan hitting two such jackpots by random chance & survivorship.
Elan's Wikipedia entry only has him leading ~10 companies. If you could name a few hundred more, that would help your case...