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If Elon were to focus solely on building and improving Tesla instead of diverting his attention to other things like Twitter, he could probably keep up.

izzydata 4y ago
I don't think he actually does anything at Tesla though so they should manage just fine without him. Assuming the company was at all capable of competing which I doubt.
hef19898 4y ago
Maybe Elon focusing on Twitter is a good thing for Tesla? Until Elon's image suffered enough to impact the perseption of Tesla as something different from a classic car company, and the evaluation drops accordingly.
- uJustsaidit 4y ago
  My head canon is various high profile voices goading Elon into buying Twitter was a campaign to put him in a position to fail. It would give Tesla, SpaceX, governments, financiers ammo to target him if Twitter flames out. There are too many aligned groups of elites who stand to gain through Elons fall (directly or just having him out of the way) to rule out someone, or many someones, have been supporting him in the Twitter drama with their fingers crossed. Records from the brief legal proceedings are out there now. This is just intuition from rolling in the mega-millionaire social scene, not the billionaires scene. Given how catty the mega-millionaire scene is, I can only imagine how bad the billionaire scene is.
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toss1 4y ago
At this point, with Tesla's quality issues, it seems more like catch-up is what he needs to do. The solar roof & battery businesses could be really good, but it seems that their battery capacity is constraining their car biz, so no room to expand, and they've been having yet another round of cancelling solar roof installs, but why? In any case, there's a lot more he could be attending to.
spamizbad 4y ago
Given his handling of Twitter I would say the less attention he pays to Tesla the better off they’ll be

izzydata 4y ago

I don't think he actually does anything at Tesla though so they should manage just fine without him. Assuming the company was at all capable of competing which I doubt.

hef19898 4y ago

Maybe Elon focusing on Twitter is a good thing for Tesla? Until Elon's image suffered enough to impact the perseption of Tesla as something different from a classic car company, and the evaluation drops accordingly.

uJustsaidit 4y ago
My head canon is various high profile voices goading Elon into buying Twitter was a campaign to put him in a position to fail. It would give Tesla, SpaceX, governments, financiers ammo to target him if Twitter flames out. There are too many aligned groups of elites who stand to gain through Elons fall (directly or just having him out of the way) to rule out someone, or many someones, have been supporting him in the Twitter drama with their fingers crossed. Records from the brief legal proceedings are out there now. This is just intuition from rolling in the mega-millionaire social scene, not the billionaires scene. Given how catty the mega-millionaire scene is, I can only imagine how bad the billionaire scene is.

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toss1 4y ago

At this point, with Tesla's quality issues, it seems more like catch-up is what he needs to do. The solar roof & battery businesses could be really good, but it seems that their battery capacity is constraining their car biz, so no room to expand, and they've been having yet another round of cancelling solar roof installs, but why? In any case, there's a lot more he could be attending to.

spamizbad 4y ago

Given his handling of Twitter I would say the less attention he pays to Tesla the better off they’ll be