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Surely at this stage Tesla would be better off without this giant douche at the helm?
Hard for me to say.
From my perspective, Tesla is a zombie company, and Elon Musk's bluster is the only thing keeping it afloat. Its been years since they've made a serious new product (lol Tesla Semi, lol Cybertruck), EVs are undergoing a cyclical downturn, China is deflating (like 1/2 sales than normal, likely due to economic conditions over there), and Europe is pissed at Tesla's behavior with unions.
Furthermore, Elon Musk has been at the helm for so long that whoever replaces him will be just as much of an asshole as Elon. Every "golden" executive who has worthwhile skills has been laid off, or quit, by now. The CFO is clearly just a kid to rubber-stamp financial decisions and they haven't been able to get any serious financial guy there.
Honestly, I think the company just collapses faster without Elon Musk. The dude is a master of grifting and faking it. Without him at the healm, Tesla might accidentally tell the truth (ex: Tesla Semi is a failure. Cybertruck is a failure. AI / Dojo is a grift that never had a chance vs NVidia. AI Bipedal Robots will not take over jobs or improve their factories). No. Its only Elon who is the only one who can keep these obvious falsehoods and state them with such confidence to trick wide swaths of the public into giving him more money.
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