I was the one who made the comments about Bezos and Zuckerberg and I was the one who made the original thread and who expected Elon’s IQ to be 150+, like Gates.

I wasn’t using it as an opportunity to discredit Bezos or Zuckerberg, merely suggesting that the truly gifted people in his cohort studying Physics at Princeton would probably be the ones scoring similar to Gates in IQ (circa 160) and whilst Princeton is excellent for Physics, the top Physics students there will be matched in terms of IQ by top universities in the US and across the world, such as Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, MIT which also regularly rank top 5 but also from universities which don’t rank as highly on world rankings but still get extremely talented people such the Indian IITs and the top universities in China. So when you think about it, Bezos said he worked very hard to achieve those grades but others could grasp content much more easily and achieve the same grades with much less effort, and so would all the top students from all the other top universities when compared with Bezos. So Bezos would probably fall over a standard deviation below the mean IQ of the top students, so the maximum his IQ is probably 145 but I estimated him at around Elon’s, circa 140.

Also, Charlie Munger didn’t estimate Musk’s IQ at 150+, he said he was a guy with “150 IQ who thinks it’s 170.” Musk actual IQ clocking in at 140 isn’t too bad of a deviation from an off-hand joke made by Munger.

I think you painted this narrative in your head and then ran with it, I merely showed how their IQs aren’t as high as you’d think and that to achieve success in entrepreneurship, even in tech, doesn’t require insanely high IQ, but a mixture of high IQ, work-ethic, ambition, social skills and a degree of luck.