Clickbait title, I apologize but its Rule5 to keep the original titles.
This article performs a business analysis on Elon Musk, and where the money seems to have been going with regards to Tesla, SpaceX, and of course Twitter this year. With $1.3+ Billion interest payments coming up, Twitter is likely low on cash soon.
It seems premature to call Elon out (ie: the clickbait title is too clickbait), but this article makes a good case why Elon's financial situation across these companies is in trouble.
With regards to Tesla itself: Cybertruck is a dud that is only there to hype the stock price at this juncture. With only 10 deliveries from the delivery event, "2024" for the start of the limited production $80,000 model and an unknown "2025" date for the cheaper mass production model, there's no hope for Cybertruck to be financially relevant any time soon.
With Rockets exploding at SpaceX, with Tesla ramping up production (ie: $$$$$$ spent), and Twitter losing $Billions/year on interest alone (let alone all the other costs going on), the article suggests that a Twitter bankruptcy is in Elon's best interest to keep things moving.
An interesting argument, we will see how it plays out over the next year.
While the Starship program has been progressing far more slowly than anticipated (no surprise here, of course) it's basically on track and if they manage to create a fully reusable heavy lift rocket, that will be a huge leap for all of humanity. Those exploding rockets are very much part of the plan and represent an approach to developing new technology that is worth emulating.
As for Tesla, yeah, the cybertruck is probably a dud. But that's far from disastrous for them. Right now the EV market is in a bit of a tough spot, because competition is ramping up and demand can be fickle. But this is also the time when future market share is decided and Tesla is in a very good position to take a huge slice of the pie.
So yeah, the guy's a huge asshole but writing him off is very premature.
Demand is fickle because supply consists of 80k dollar luxury barges. Think of all the engineering capital wasted on that cyber truck vanity project that could have been poured into a decent mass market vehicle.
They make Toyota-ish margins on ~$53k asp, roughly $10k more than Toyota. Just not a lot of meat on the bone for an EV…
Well they can have some money for selling a reasonably priced vehicle to sombody or they can have no money at all for not selling an overpriced vehicle to anyone.