> Musk himself told stories about his father having stacks of cash.

Do you have a credible source for this? At best I'm seeing EDS conspiracy nuts (and Erol, though he seems to be all over the place).

> No, that isn't what made him rich now, holding onto paypal shares did

I think there's a little more to it than that.

> Part of the reason he could hold onto those shares is because he had a wealthy family supporting him so he could just sit on them.

He didn't hold on to them long, at most a year or so after he left (the sale to eBay was 2002).

And why would his family be supporting him when he was already a millionaire and had paid off his 100K+ student loans?

Again, do you have any credible sources for any of this?