No, more likely he’s just a narcissistic fuck up. Stop looking for some grand conspiracy here, the dude built a shitty website and got ridiculously lucky to be picked up by a competent company in the dot com bubble, got kicked out of PayPal before it was even PayPal, had his entire codebase rewritten because it was shit, bought Tesla and sued to name himself a co-founder, hired people to send rockets into space and named himself Chief Technology Officer, started a number of dumbass failed business ideas like Boring and Hyperloop, and bought a fucking social media website because he got into a pissing match with the fucking social media website on that fucking social media website and then tried to weasel his way out of buying that fucking social media website but got threatened with a big ass fucking lawsuit.

The dude is a straight up fucking loser, not some evil genius.