Having twice visited Musks SpaceX factory in Hawthorne, and being an engineer with quite a lot of experience on aerospace factory floors, I can vouch for Musks legitimacy as a real CEO.
If it were intel weenies using Musk as a front, and that they are really running SpaceX, then what I have seen of the nitty gritty of SpaceX tells me that those Intel guys missed their calling, as they are wasted on intel.
And you could have visited early/mid Facebook and said the same of him. Or Thiel’s companies and said it for Thiel.
For having spent so much time on aerospace floors you apparently haven’t grasped much of the larger picture of what’s at work there.