Some people are convinced that wealth is all about IQ, and therefore Elon Musk’s IQ must be 170 or higher. Others are convinced that billionaires are scammers and Musk is not as smart as he seems, and that he potentially has an average or near-average IQ.
Data, however, indicates that the average billionaire has an IQ of 130, which is roughly the top 2% of the population. There are a lot of people with that IQ who are not billionaires, but most people don’t have the IQ to become billionaires.