Invite-only always feels a bit strange to me, in a community where we celebrate the guy who made it alone against the crowd, it seem to foster self-replication.

Invite-only always feels a bit strange to me, in a community where we celebrate the guy who made it alone against the crowd, it seem to foster self-replication. You might end-up with car parks filled with Tesla cars owned by people who all do kite-surf together on the week-end. You've lost the crazy outsider who will shuffle the industry (or make it harder for him).