Elon Musk Gets Booed On Stage In SF - How Much Is That Hurting Tesla Stock?

Submitted by brad on Mon, 2022-12-12 14:08
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Musk himself was surprised to see how controversial he had become when he got a lot of booing on stage with Dave Chappelle in San Francisco last night.

Musk has always been somebody who refused to give a crap what other people think, because he can afford it. But now that his personal brand is so tied to the success of both Tesla and Twitter, he has to deal with the fact that personal brand is largely what other people think.

Analysis of this problem, and how it affects the success and stock price of Tesla, is in this new article on the Forbes site:

Elon Musk Gets Booed On Stage In SF - How Much Is That Hurting Tesla Stock?

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FKA

Sat, 2022-12-24 09:02

For someone who has always refused to give a crap what other people think, he sure runs a lot of straw polls.

What makes you attribute this trait to him? I actually see him as somewhat the opposite — caring way too much about what other people think.

He is stubborn and hard headed, and maybe you could interpret that as him not caring what other people think. But I think stubbornness can be (and often is) compatible with caring a lot about what others think. (It’s also not necessarily a bad thing. At least some of his success is probably because of it.)

Maybe when he was younger he didn’t care about what other people thought. But lately he seems to care way too much.

brad

Sat, 2022-12-24 11:54

Perhaps it's slight inaccurate to say he doesn't care -- everybody cares -- but his trait is that he refuses to be censor and modify himself out of fear of what other people will think. He says and does what he wants, and doesn't care if people hate it.

Everybody he knows, and most of the public, is telling him not to do what he's doing with Twitter. But he wants to do it and does it anyway.

FKA

Sat, 2022-12-24 17:22

Lots and lots of people are going to hate him no matter what he does, so the willingness to do things that people are going to hate him for is a low bar. He has no choice but to do things that people are going to hate him for.

Moreover, he’s probably choosing the side that will result in fewer people hating him. Short of quitting his jobs and working on charity for the rest of his life, the left is always going to hate him. Most will probably still hate him even if he did quit his jobs and work on charity for the rest of his life (c.f. Bill Gates).

I dunno, I just find it funny, because I would say that one of Musk’s biggest flaws lately is that he’s trying too hard to get people to like him. He doesn’t benefit from all the tweeting he does, and the polls he runs are especially bad. If he would just ignore all the haters and work on fixing Twitter, he’d probably do a much better job. (Though it’s a difficult problem and maybe he still would fail.)

brad

Sun, 2022-12-25 10:45

He was not so hated by the left. He's done more about climate change than any government. Yes, some lefties figured out how to hate him in spite of that, but it was difficult.

FKA

Sun, 2022-12-25 13:27

You’re talking about Gates or Musk?

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