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His skill is moving rapidly. He is ruthless with his senior team. It’s not a comfortable place to work. Nobody sleeps over there.

But you have to give him he knows how play the game better than any CEO out there(and other CEOs out there are not moonpies!).

This is his real superpower.

Can you please elaborate?

He moved AI into SpaceX and did the IPO when AI was still hot. Great timing.

(Elon Musk merged his artificial intelligence startup xAI into SpaceX in February 2026 and the stock initially traded far above what its earnings, cash flow, and execution risks could support)

Nothing like timely de-regulation to spur automatic public bag-holding.