The Twitter train wreck continues

@LeopoldBloom But give him credit for (1) demonstrating a viable electric vehicle with a longer ranger was possible and (2) being successful enough to convince the auto industry there was a market there beyond what politicians forced them to do. Henry Ford wasn't the first developer of the automobile either.

@dancingtongue I'll give him and his engineers credit for that. But that doesn't make him a visionary. Nobody remembers Adams-Farwell, Duryea, and the hundreds of other early automobile manufacturers.

@LeopoldBloom From his track record, he appears to be far more an entrepreneur than a visionary: first able to get venture capital for his early software programs including a forerunner of Paypal, selling them off at profits to begin self-funding the start-ups and IPOs of his better known ventures. Still an impressive track record for a double immigrant: first to Canada where he had dual citizenship through his mother, and then across our northern border with a student visa. One does wonder what the would have happened if his mother had been from Latin America and he had to come from the southern border. Our immigration laws are totally dysfunctional when it comes to who gets opportunities and who doesn't.

@Wiseacre If you live any where near his Tesla factory, the track record (pun intended) shows it is inevitable.