The next time Steve Ballmer was this wrong was when he thought he could get himself an NBA title by conducting a year-long tampering campaign and then acceding to every one of Kawhi Leonard’s demands, both legal and illegal.
Guys like Elon think that because they've succeeded in one area, that genius translates to every other area and the inability to realize that it doesn't makes him and others like him dumbasses.
Why not get in on the grift. 6 billie is couch change to Jeffy. A few rounds of VC funding here, another insider round there with a 300 billion dollar valuation that exists for reasons and his 6 billie is worth 100B on paper.
Jeff must get cranky looking at the Forbes list, wondering why he's spent all of this time and energy building incredible businesses that make real money, like an idiot, instead of just dreaming up bullshit and selling the made up bullshit to the tech investor class and getting a Trillion dollar pay package for it like Elon.