He once said, many years ago, like 2014 era, that any spare personal capital of his was going into SpaceX. Then only a few years later builds a mansion for himself? Then a few years later lies to all SpaceX employees telling them if they don't work overtime that SpaceX will fail due to lack of funding? What a POS.
Brace for stans decrying this as a "hit piece" like they always do.
His companies are funded by hype, public money and almost false information that he spins around. And somehow even institutions are buying it.
SpaceX was almost entirely funded by NASA/Govt. contracts.
Starlink for Ukraine? Yes, but after a very short time, Musk decided he no longer wants to fund them and US Dept of Defence was suddenly forced to fund the full Starlink bill for Ukraine (while not being able to use it for "military" purposes). Bam, more public funding. Bait and switch.
Using Tesla money to buy Twitter, then tanking the company's valuation (and where is the magical Tesla stock now?).
More govt funding? Billions (maybe lower tens of billions now) of subsidies, credits etc. were poured into to Tesla, SolarCity, that dumb tunnel, pandemic stimuli...
