There's an old tweet that explains it well, I'm sure you've seen it.

(Paraphrased) "Elon Musk talked about cars. I don't know anything about cars so when people said he was a genius, I figured he must be a genius"

Investors don't know shit about the stuff they're investing in and Musk sounds really smart when you don't know anything about the thing he's speaking on.

For Tesla and SpaceX, they attracted the top engineers because they were cool bleeding edge problems to solve that actually aligned with idealist goals in the industries.

Musk used that genuine motivation and overworked people into burnout, and took credit for others hard work.

His only talent is convincing the wealthy to invest in his schemes. I don't understand how he does it, hearing him speak is painful.

That's not fair, he's also really good at making promises to the public to secure incentives and public funding and then fucking everyone over

To his credit SpaceX was at least a correct recognition that the dominant space launch companies were just a cartel milking federal funding for as much as possible. That sector is so stagnant that ULA still hasn't blinked at the massive success of first stage reusability.

Man, I wish I was a deluded narcissist. Life sounds pretty good for them.

Maybe they mean pigeon to make it sound like he isn't able to be a seagull manager. Like he's trying to be a seagull manager, but only managed pigeon manager. A quiet insult.

It's not pigeon management unless it's from the city region of new york

Isn't something like that why Elon got in trouble with the Tesla board? Something about using Tesla as a bank to fund space x.

Tis a shame, Musk would be perfect to colonize Mars. Send him there. But forget to send women.