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I'm one of the first people to shit on Tesla, but hasn't the company's philosophy always been that they are a software company that makes cars? I could see it happening.
To add on to the OP, I'd even argue that Tesla may stop making cars entirely and just move on to contracting out tech and software for major automakers. Looking at all the sales headaches the company's been facing these past few years, I wouldn't be surprised to see them pivot to just operating behind the scenes and let the established players deal with the user distribution side of things.
I have heard that about Google.
I have heard that about Apple.
I have heard that about Mobileye...
In any case, if it shall work, it requires a boss who can think straight and does not try to be the whole carmaker's boss.
Oh yeah, I don't think it would happen anytime soon but what future does Tesla have otherwise? Elon's already tainted the brand for the company's most likely buyers and sales figures show it. Not many people want a Tesla car, but their tech is still desirable for many people (including other automakers who don't want to spend the resources on R&D that Tesla's already done
Very good question.
I don't have any facts to support my guess, but if you want to hear my guess: they will go down more or less the same drain as Ex-Twitter.
Perhaps. The main problem I see with that prediction is that X is privately owned whereas Tesla is publicly traded. Elon can run X however stupidly he wants (some exceptions apply), but Tesla has a legal obligation to conduct business in good faith, and shareholders have shown before that they will stand against Elon when his ideas seem to go against this.
If I try to think from the point of view of that narcissistic CEO:
He is quite able to present visions to (=manipulate) large masses of users, and as well to that bunch of awful-pain-in-the-ass shareholders.
Well, some are haters, and will always be. So what. Some day they are going to adapt. They just have to.
The outcome of it:
He is not going to behave differently just because there are public shareholders. Whether or not they are able to make things different, I don't know.