Following the public listing of SpaceX Inc., Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, cementing his place as the most consequential entrepreneur of the times. Musk’s real achievement is his vision of a post-scarcity future where Tesla and SpaceX’s technology in robotics, AI, and rocketry automates all labour. He is described as the true inheritor of the tech-prophet throne since Steve Jobs, yet he broke nearly every rule about leadership taught in business schools like Harvard, Wharton, or the Indian Institutes of Management. Historical data shows the world’s top fifty self-made billionaires lack management degrees, instead being dominated by university dropouts like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison, or technical visionaries with advanced scientific degrees. In India, the generics and IT services industries were built by those with specialized degrees, not business administration. A study by Saras Sarasvathy reveals a mismatch between business school “causation” thinking and what founding a company demands, as founders start with whatever is at hand and let goals emerge.