I wonder if he will still say that, after learning Brin divorced his wife for likely cheating with Musk.

This seems like a perfect encapsulation of this person (and the snobbery of everyone involved of course).

I deny this. He provides money and hype, and hires the best engineers in the industry who then get results. In some cases things gets things built, but that doesn't mean Elon Musk was personally useful to any given project besides providing hype and money.