Elon is different. People called and still call Jobs a jerk (as James Gosling in his interview with Lex Fridman). Elon shows erratic behavior from time to time, but I do not think people would call him a jerk.

I think his transphobic and downplaying covid tweets got him called a jerk. Oh and the pedophile accusation against that guy that rescued the kids from the cave. I think he was a jerk for that one.

I still respect him though.

A lot of people actually do

Elon is a mini Hitler.

Elon also started many years ago. Paypal was a couple of decades ago.