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Yes, I know he bought a struggling company.

> Can you make the case that they wouldn't have been as successful without him?

Easy. They never, ever would have sold it to Musk if they knew it could be such a runaway success and make them container ships full of money. They had no idea how to do it. Musk did.

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So the willingness of the founder to stay/leave is the only metric for the long-term success of the company?

Did I say "only"? Nope.

Then how is that a convincing argument that Elon is the reason that Tesla is successful.

You're confusing Elon with the founders.

How so?

A => B does not mean B => A

Man I had no idea that Tesla had only one employee! It's nothing short of amazing that Musk can design and implement a car and a rocket from the ground up and still have spare time to man the machines in the factories and shitpost on twitter every day! My respect for him grew immensely.

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