You know, there's a possibility that it would suck if investors got itchy and pulled out of TSLA after these news.
I mean, it would be very understandable, but from a game-theoretical point of view, there's the question of what you want to signal as an investor. If it's too costly to make mistakes, or worse, if you inadvertently signal it's fine to err given the company doesn't ever admit it publicly, then there's a variety of possible outcomes. The least worst is you end up with glorified, electrified, GM stock. The worst is, you end up with Enron. Which, incidentally, Wikipedia says was too "one of the most innovative companies" back then.
Tesla actually has gotten to the point of making real things. Enron at its height, was, erm, uh. Yeah. I think given what we know about Enron now it's pretty easy to draw up a direct comparison. Tesla might be doing a bit of a shell game with the pricing, but as far as comparing it to Enron, I think that's a bit overboard.
Enron were also in the business of selling and trading electricity and owned a number of large power plants. A lot of the fraud was actually in the electricity part of their business.
I mean, it would be very understandable, but from a game-theoretical point of view, there's the question of what you want to signal as an investor. If it's too costly to make mistakes, or worse, if you inadvertently signal it's fine to err given the company doesn't ever admit it publicly, then there's a variety of possible outcomes. The least worst is you end up with glorified, electrified, GM stock. The worst is, you end up with Enron. Which, incidentally, Wikipedia says was too "one of the most innovative companies" back then.
Of course, you probably already know that.