This assumes that I think being fast is by itself a worthy competition, which I don't, plus fails to provide a definition of speed. There are plenty of companie

This assumes that I think being fast is by itself a worthy competition, which I don't, plus fails to provide a definition of speed. There are plenty of companies with phenomenal growth that we've never heard of because they don't make headlines. Even in the automotive market there are companies that are experiencing big growth and stealing market share from Tesla quicker than Tesla built that market. Yes they were first but that's no guarantee of long term success. Picking from the dataset of companies you can think of is something that Musk's marketing strategy relies on as it's what we do when comparing companies for buying cars, buying stock or talking about.