It might be time for Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s own fork in the road.
The electric carmaker is set to report quarterly earnings Tuesday afternoon that may say a lot about which direction Musk and the company he has ridden to immense wealth will go next.
The company will update investors on revenue, profit and other key figures after months of turmoil as Musk continues to dedicate a large portion of his time to the Trump administration’s attempt to radically remake the federal government, far away from his corporate responsibilities at Tesla, SpaceX and his other companies.
With Tesla’s stock and brand reputation getting pummeled — and with Trump’s tariff policy threatening to upend the automotive market, Tesla included — many Tesla investors have called on Musk to scale back or end his government work entirely and return his focus to business.
They’ll probably just retire the brand, slap on a new name and logo and keep business as usual and just have Muskrat in the background like some sort of evil wizard, like Saruman casting spells from his dark cave and collecting money
VW managed to transition from nazi image to hippies.
Not just VW; lots of European brands (and some American!) have successfully managed to atone (or bury, depending on how charitable you feel) their actions before and during WWII.
If a company is older than a century, look at their history and see how many of them kinda pretend they didn’t exist from 1930-1945.
Lots of good points being made, however, there’s a point in time where it stops mattering entirely. Holding a company responsible for its acts during WW2 is no different than holding the current German govt responsible for the Holocaust. We are at the point where the company that exists today is run by people with zero (or very few) ties to the people who ran those companies during WW2.
As mentioned, VW is one such company. The VW that ran during WW2 was completely shredded. VW today only exists thanks to the British who decided to resurrect it.
Saruman at least had charisma and was a badass. Musk is more of a Wormtongue type.
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