Source for the pivotal claim: another article. The source of that article: a Rolling Stone interview of Musk himself.
You can’t trust malignant narcissists about themselves and their early lives, especially not ones like Musk who lies about the death of his own child
Okay, and the OP’s source for Elon’s success coming solely from daddy’s money and nothing else is what?
Musk has publicly laid out that anybody can get rich writing software without much startup capital - which not only makes sense but by all accounts seems to be exactly what he did.
Nobody said solely, but the source is daddy emeraldbucks himself.
Your hero isn’t a genius. He’s just a lucky narcissist with the money to buy succes and the shamelessness to constantly brag about how superior he thinks he is to everyone.