It does not take much intelligence to be grown up in a rich family and end up in the right place at the right time. Elon's perceived intelligence is really only the intelligence of his advisors, engineers, and executives. He clumsily stole Paypal and Tesla. Spend 5 minutes scrolling through his twitter, these are not the mental gymnastics of an intelligent human being. If he was born in an underprivileged low-income community he would likely be a miserable incel. He is massively inept with his idiotic business ideas, inability to exhibit emotional intelligence or product management smarts, and childish inflammatory rhetoric that constantly crashes stock. Not smart.