Elon Musk is Tesla. There is no Tesla without him. The market responded strongly to what it considered his mistakes.
Tesla as a company shows no signs of slowing, especially vs any other car company.
Doubtful. This guy isn't God. CEO's come and go like bad weather. The fact is, Musk delivered on a concept, but he is now spreading himself much too thin. Tesla, Space-X, and now the whole Twitter thing.... Which isn't doing much better than Tesla at the moment.
This can and does happen to over rapidly expanding companies, along with their billionaire leaders. They always at some point, end up biting off more than they can chew. The whole, "The Sky Is The Limit!", concept. Everything has a ceiling.
The possible exceptions are Gates and Buffet. Who now basically sit around making speeches, and appear on talk shows, deciding how much of their fortunes they're going to give away. (Assuming they don't lose it in divorces).
Regardless of how thin you want to slice and dice this, Tesla as a company, is presently worth $700
BILLION DOLLARS LESS this year, than it was last year at this time. That cannot continue to happen if there is going to be a future for it.
Nothing detracts potential stockholders faster than losses. And once the ones you have dump and run, it's a sign of serious trouble. Because the only way they'll come back, is when it becomes
cheap enough. In the case of Tesla, that can easily become too cheap to survive.
