Another way you could look at it is like this: Twitter, who produce a service used globally by millions of people every day raised $139M, while Tesla, who prod

Another way you could look at it is like this: Twitter, who produce a service used globally by millions of people every day raised $139M, while Tesla, who produce an object that only a handful have ever seen and even fewer will ever buy is getting 1M less to try to take on some of the largest industrial conglomerates in the world. Something is wrong with the picture, but which of those two are more likely to make a good return on the investment could be debated for quite a while...