He didn’t start either PayPal or Tesla, he got fired as PayPal CEO because it wasn’t doing so hot and he paid his way into Tesla to be able to call himself founder. He’s not the genius. He’s the guy who started with money to throw around, did so to make even more money and put his face on the poster and started to drink his own coolaid.

It’s hard to ethically compete with those who break the law.

It says he was arrested for activities unrelated to Mastodon, just happened to be working on an unencrypted backup which was also seized. No clue why he was arrested.