You won’t see a headline reading “Musk sets up the SEC.” But the Securities and Exchange Commission is in a pickle of its own making with no way out. Elon Musk, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tesla, Inc., has been a persistent critic of short-sellers in the stock market, people who stand to profit…
Control of 59% of Ford Motor Company stock allowed Henry Ford to introduce the Model T in 1909. He added the assembly line in 1913. In 1915, he began acquiring land for the ultimate in industrial vertical integration: the River Rouge complex. In pursuing these plans, Henry Ford would discover that even 59% of the…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Elon Musk has a lot in common with Henry Ford. fact, studying Henry Ford could give Mr. Musk guidance in his quest to make Tesla successful. In the end, Henry Ford won – and won big. So, too, can Musk. Parallels of Ford and Musk are revealing. Like Henry Ford, Musk has his own…
Can Tesla succeed? History is full of automobile manufacturers that failed. The Dodge brothers were the last to start a new automobile manufacturer in the United States that still, in some corporate form, is in the business today. They did it in 1914. The most recent serious attempt at starting a domestic mass production automobile…