… By the way, you might’ve misunderstood the point of the Elon Musk examples. The point wasn’t that he’s some exemplar of honesty. It was that he was motivated to try to make his companies succeed despite believing that the most likely outcome was failure. (i.e., he is a counterexample to the common claim “Entrepreneurs have to believe they are going to succeed, or else they won’t be motivated to try”)
… By the way, you might’ve misunderstood the point of the Elon Musk examples. The point wasn’t that he’s some exemplar of honesty. It was that he was motivated to try to make his companies succeed despite believing that the most likely outcome was failure. (i.e., he is a counterexample to the common claim “Entrepreneurs have to believe they are going to succeed, or else they won’t be motivated to try”)