Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 04/15/2019
Tesla is a goner in its present state. A year from now it will belong to someone else. I’ve said this from the outset: Elon Musk has been using government subsidies and other people’s money, has lied about the car’s performance (its longest range was quoted by not using the air conditioning and not accelerating on the highway, for example); there are quality problems and embarrassing shifts in direction. Within the past week, he’s changed his mind on the low-end offering which was supposed to provide so much profit.
When challenged, he’s created mini-submarines to save the trapped Thai kids (and claimed the expert, who explained it wouldn’t fit in the cave, was a pedophile); has caused an SEC investigation because of careless and perhaps illegal public statements about going private; has talked of supersonic subways and all kinds of things to divert attention from a failing operation. (Some Tesla owners have to wait six weeks for repairs.) He wants to send a rocket ship to Mars but can’t reliably send a Tesla to California.
Americans in particular love entrepreneurs. We could put up with an otherwise distasteful Steve Jobs and an anti-social grouch like Bill Belichick because they were and are consistently successful. Musk is a somewhat picaresque figure, but he’s run out of time and money, and castles in the air all fall to earth. Next year, if the brand survives, it will be owned by Volkswagen or Honda or Apple or maybe Warren Buffet.
It’s one thing to watch and learn something from episodes like this, but it’s completely another to put your money into them. It’s fine to dream, but some dreams turn into nightmares.
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