I just recalled how hard his journey was when starting the Tesla as well as space X. He just said that he solved the biggest problem he encountered in life; if he hadn't solved it, then he said Tesla would be closed, and there is no Space X. Imagine he is working 100+ hours a week and even sometimes he sleeps in the facility to do his work. I don't know if he is still human, but he is the smartest person in the current day. Also, the way he talks and how deep his thinking is, he isn't just a businessman, but he is an innovator and a problem solver kind of person.
I can't believe that you could idolize people like that, which is a bit weird. First of all he owned 3 companies after paypal deal, and spacX was one of that which got help from NASA, meaning he paid a bit to build it of course, about 100-150 million if I am not wrong, but NASA bailed him out, he wouldn't be able to do shit if NASA didn't give him that money.
Secondly Tesla was already a car company that sold cars before he got there, but they lacked funding, instead of funding them, he bought them, which is great sure, but Tesla before him didn't pre-sale cars, he decided to take money and give the car 6 months later type of stuff, which worked out for him. I could give many reasons why he is not as big of a deal as people created, he is amazing at investment, but nothing else, he didn't had to work 100+ hours a week, he was there to fund the engineers, nothing more.