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Both. Many people with Dad's money have lost it in a couple of years. He was able to use it to fund multiple revolutionary companies (and succeed at it).
Somewhere between the two?

I see zero reason to think that Musk is a genius, although he's clearly a smart guy. And without the support of his family, he probably wouldn't have been able to accumulate the initial wealth he needed to do the stuff he's done.