It is very telling of your values and your character that y'all respect this serial pathological liar.
Let me see.
So we have a guy who has done 3 things.
1. Bought a failing company which falls within the scope of the incorporated goal of the company he is CEO of.
2. Tweeted the details of private internal company business which moved the market
3. Used a slur against a very stand up guy because he was annoyed, in a late night twitter tirade.
Now let me see. When Musk bought Solar city, his board OK'd it and it was not a company breaking move. For which he got staff, manufacturing facilities, patents and an order book.
For the 420 thing, I have no doubt of two things, firstly that Musk was annoyed with the shorts and secondly that he was in quite serious talks to take the company private.
If you are unsure of this, you only need to look at the SEC and justice dept restrictions on Musk to see what behaviour they targeted.
For the late night twitter rant when frustrated at being laughed at for trying to help? When I was younger the biggest slur to a normal person was to call them homosexual. Today that is completely gone, but calling people a paedophile has taken that place. Musk was guilty of nothing more than losing it in a flame war. It was the press exposure which blew it out of all proportion.
This is what the courts are for. And it is working. First Musk is paying the price. Second, he is becoming more cautious as a result.
Now, let's look on the other side.
Musk has used his financial resources, technical ability and marketing abilities/management abilities to:
- create rockets which are reuseable, cheap and reduce the barrier to space. His company also has the most powerful operating rocket and is well on the way to building a reuseable heavy launch system to rival and exceed the Atlas rockets.
- created the single most desirable EV brand in the world, with World class sales and having created a market which is driving world EV sales and competition
- Created a vehicle management computer which is a world leader for compute power on low power drain and heat emissions, making it the undisputed leader in that space. (I wouldn't bother arguing that, this is part of my day job).
I'm not even going to talk about tunnelling. That will evolve over the next few decades.
Personal solar power and home power stores are a sideshow and a nice to have. Not even worth talking about.
But, of course, you are right. He is a serial liar, has not delivered a single thing he committed to and needs to be in Jail forthwith.
I, of course, don't have a clue and should shut up. So I'm going to do that now.