Neither was reuse of rockets and I remember the ex-boss of Arianespace laughing at those bozos of SpaceX who try to pretend that they are a serious space business.
Musk made some bad bets, but also some good ones (Falcon rockets, Starlink) and some at least promising ones (Starship, Neuralink). And Twitter bought him enormous political influence - I wouldn't consider this a failure either, from the realistically-cynical point of view. That cannot be measured by revenue alone.
Twitter was a "success" for musk sure, it was also a catastrophic failure for the rest of western civilisation.
Musk has been coasting on his successes from 10+ years ago. He has nothing good to offer anyone in 2026.
>90% of the launch market and a great WORLDWIDE isp.
> He has nothing good to offer anyone in 2026.
Falcon launches cost dramatically _less_ than comparables like Ariane. In Fact, Ariane had to beg europe of subsidies to keep the program competitive.
Meanwhile, Starship is well on it's way.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Wait, you think Elon solved these problems?
Like it or not he founded (sometimes in-part) but drove these companies to success by demanding deliverables others thought were crazy.
For most of his sucsessful ideas he had sophisticated investors, VC's, to judge the idea and take the bet(at an early stage).
Would any VC(one without a conflict of interest) invest now, for the long term, based on those visions?