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He certainly doesn’t seem very good at spending them, everything around the whole Twitter purchase is just handled so staggering poorly.
For technical abilities, I’m just watching interviews where the way he presents and give answers around SpaceX and Tesla is far beyond what any smooth talking business man could normally manage. He’ll take very technical questions about specific rocket propulsion parts and can reason about them and answer.
Smart people that have worked with him also agree that he has great, technical capacity: https://erik-engheim.medium.com/is-elon-musk-just-a-sales-guy-9d3eb7a1b49c
He’s clearly very often an unlikable person and he says something stupid / childish etc in almost every interview, so I don’t have any problem with people that makes up their mind about him from that alone. On a human level it does usually overshadow any better qualities.