Re:To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM
by adanto6840 on Saturday April 21, 2018 @07:14PM
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Interesting point, seems obvious but isn't something I had directly thought about when considering Tesla's value.
I would wonder how long that demand holds, consumer "brand desire" if you will, if Elon is no longer at the helm. Maybe it wouldn't be affected much right away, but would it once they focused more on execution instead of innovation perhaps? Nonetheless, is an interesting line of thought.
Re:To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM
by hsribei on Saturday April 21, 2018 @07:19PM
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_Can_ Elon Musk be booted if the board wanted to? I'd bet he still has a ton of control.
Re:To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM
by forkLding on Saturday April 21, 2018 @08:33PM
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Ranges from either a Steve Jobs booted out of Apple to Travis Kalanick from Uber.
Based on those, if a board really wanted to boot you out, they will work hard to cut off any control as Steve Jobs had to wait quite a while and then get his company Next bought to come back.
Lets not forget that Tesla has impressive IPs wanted by generally most car companies and very well-trained staff, factories and huge customer demand (over-subscribing their orders) so if Tesla was to be sold for cheap in a recessionary period, any car company would raise money to buy Tesla.