[falcrist]

Nah. Tesla is doing good work. They're far from perfect, but it's an interesting product, and they were first to market in many ways. I can't see it lasting that much longer in it's current form, but that doesn't undermine the work they've already done.

It's also important to note that Musk isn't the founder of that one. He just has a contract that gives him the title "founder".

And there's definitely a trend where his earlier companies were less likely to be scams. Zip2 and Paypal were both successful AFAIK. Boring Company is a bust unless it's radically reorganized (without underground vacuum tunnels), OpenAI is probably BS too. It's a little hard to say right now.