When Elon Musk co-founds a university, he’ll become the 21st-century Alfred Escher.
n.b. updated parallels:
- SolarCity powering Tesla’s energy division ≈ hydropower driving Swiss trains.
- SpaceX (inc Starlink) ≈ an insurance policy (of sorts!) for the human species.
Perhaps I’d break Starlink out as the infrastructure to permit education, as ETH was in the 19th century.