I think he is brilliant, but very creepy. And just like any genius type minded person they have no concept of the average person's life or way of thinking. Everything they create is fit to their minds.

His multiple children with multiple women, and his mannerisms make me very unsettled and creeped out by him. I see him not as some tech savior but as an evil genius that one day will say "I own the World, follow me" or else!

This is my feeling about Elon.

I hear he is willing to pay for anything.

He is intelligent, and qualified in computing.

I can't really judge his personality though, although giving his children silly names as he is said to do, is hardly anything to be proud of.

I do not trust his business aims and methods though, and his highly-unoffical "DOGE" manoeuvres (blanket dismissals accompanied by blanket accusations of criminality, by a "department" never given proper Congressional approval and scrutiny) suggest he is utterly ruthless and inhumane.

I regard his dream of manned flights to Mars as just that, a dream, and a very unpleasant one at that; and I bet he won't volunteer to be in the first crew. I also regards his cluttering near-Space with huge numbers of satellites as unsustainable and unwarranted; little better than very expensive fly-tipping of costly materials merely to make him even richer.

He is reputed to be very unpleasant and exploitative as an employer; but I don't know the truth of that. .

I feel like you have to be at a genius level in at least one thing to be where he's at. Whether it's entrepreneurship or business analysis, he is no bot. Setting your emotions aside, and speaking objectively, he is intelligent and at the moment, the richest entity in the world.

Not a fan of him or his cars

I’m neutral about him.

He should not be enabled to cause harm to humanity.

He stickes me as one of the kids that you played with once and said yeah your weird bye.

Most high-end elites are not intelligent in the way we mere mortals would portray it.

Global elites, tech bros, Saudi princes, etc. all surround themselves with acolytes and thinktanks to do the actual grunt work of making their megalomaniacal ideas become reality.

Well he has to be intelligent to do what he's done and to be the worlds wealthiest man. Full stop.

I don't hate him or super like him, but I think he gets a bad rap. Many love to hate those more powerful.

A lot of people like Elon because he's a stupid person's idea of what a smart person acts like.

he has delusions of competence. and his confidence vastly outpaces his skill in just about everything, I think.
well maybe not in 'earnings'. which... is just a terrible dimension to measure anyone by.

The 4channers and X people like him. He's smart, but I don't want to be lorded over by narcs. Already dealt with that in my family.

I have been around him a couple of times at conferences. He is very smart, but I found him to be totally enraptured with himself and not concerned about anybody else. I don't like him.

Elons the goat.
I doubt it’s him sitting behind a PC banning peeps from X

He is extremely wealthy and I assume that his business and technology acumen has earned him at least some of that wealth. But intelligent? He has a distorted and very narrow minded view of the world that he never tires of exhibiting. He interferes in democratic processes and arbitrarily attacks minorities and those who dare to contradict him. He is a classic narcissist with zero self-awareness or emotional intelligence.