Those companies had boards of directors and people at the top who were known to be reliable partners. SpaceX has an idiotic juvenile at the helm. The situations are barely even comparable.

Not a student of history I take it? I give you Howard Hughes.

SpaceX and Tesla now have effective senior management that insulate their divisions from Musk. His impact there is increasingly minimal, if at all present.

Where Musk is allowed to be Musk is Twitter, an emblem of his wonderful management style.