“I’ve done enough”

Yes, he’s done enough. Although it is kind of funny watching his face evoke misery as he says he’s done enough, it is also rather disturbing watching him go off the rails.

I don’t know if he suffers permanent damage to his reputation or whether he survives this period. It’s too soon to make that prognosis because he could recover, although I would imagine most people would be hard pressed to do so, after such high-level combustion.

I’m not talking about his fight with the President – that’s for others to analyze. I’m more interested in his image as some genius businessman or maybe it was some genius innovator.

My interest is more on the news of his alleged drug use.

Swashbuckling innovator?

I’m having a hard time wrapping my mind around the image of a swashbuckling innovator before his foray into Twitter versus his behavior as he took control of Twitter.

Prior to his Twitter antics, the public viewed him as a highly regarded innovator. There was no one occupying the innovation space quite like the way he was: electric car, SpaceX, NeuraLink. Most entrepreneur occupy a single space; Elon was occupying at least 3.

But the Twitter takeover calls into question that story. His management style comes across as bullying.

His foray into the government further lends to the bullying image.

How in the world did he manage companies prior to Twitter?

The news that he may be addicted to ketamine might be the answer to his strange behaviors.

The rumors

Since his Twitter takeover and his “abuse” of the employees, stories began to come out – very quietly – that he was not truly the innovator but the one buying out the companies.

He first began as part of the “PayPal mafia” which included Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, David Sachs, as well as others. At the time, I don’t think he was regarded as a genius.

It was later he began to have the image of some kind of innovation genius (or maybe I was misinterpreting what I was reading.)

But now the rumors are saying he did not start the companies.

He did not invent the technologies.

He just took over the companies and then planted his face as the genius behind the technology.

Those were the rumors I was reading and they do make sense.

His management style

So, he is not the true innovative genius like Steve Jobs was. His genius was in being able to identify the innovative companies likely to grow and then taking over the company.

But the management style of before the Twitter takeover and then post Twitter takeover confused me. I never heard of his “bullying” style until the Twitter takeover. There is such a disconnect between the before and after Twitter takeover. If he was such a bully during the Twitter takeover, wouldn’t he have been the same kind of bully in other takeovers?

That’s the part I’m having problems with.

So my question is: when did he start taking ketamine and when did the addiction start to kick in? If his addiction began before the Twitter saga, then that might explain the erratic behavior since that takeover.

Where are the shareholders?

My other question is: where are the shareholders? They should be ditching him as CEO of Tesla because of his alleged drug addiction. His behavior since 2024 has been very erratic and very unbecoming of a CEO: jumping around like a nut at rallies, wearing that cheesehead hat and brandishing that chainsaw, throwing out that Nazi-like gesture 2 or 3 times.

And, more damagingly, those videos of him spacing out with rolling eyes and weird head movements. I have never been around people who are high, but I would imagine those videos were depicting him as high. As some commenters noted, “he looked high as a kite”!

So, where are the shareholders? Is it okay that their CEO is acting like he is under the influence of drugs?