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Elon Musk founded SpaceX and Starlink. None of your array of links say otherwise, and I daresay you won't be able to find any because it's a fact that he did. Here's a Wikipedia article on the history of SpaceX, here's an article on Starlink. Starlink was started as a project by SpaceX.
Elon did indeed buy Tesla. He became the largest shareholder in 2004 for $6.5 million, and it only produced its first car in 2008. So he bought it when it was a startup with no products and he grew it from there. I'd say that gives him a fairly "direct hand" in its success.
Dislike Elon Musk if you want, he's a pretty terrible person from everything I've heard. But I can't stand this common leap from "I don't like him!" to "therefore he can't actually be good at anything or accomplish anything worthwhile!" Especially when the facts are so easy to come by.