Don't use PayPal when pointing to an achievement of Musk's.

PayPal was already a working prototype, trademarked, and ready to go when Musk's failing-to-take-off online bank merged with them.

Musk was made CEO because he was the largest shareholder when they tried to figure out relative valuations at the merger.

He lasted four months. Spent most of it arguing with engineering about throwing away the full working prototype in favor of rewriting it from scratch in a language he understood, and arguing with the board about whether or not that was really what he should be focused on as CEO.

He lasted four months.

And in a world where executives resign, or "spend time with their family", etc., the Board of PayPal, having just attended Musk's wedding that weekend, publicly fired him on Monday morning as he was boarding a plane to go to his honeymoon. That is how bad it was.

Musk's actual contribution to PayPal is mostly "cashing the dividend checks".