Why Tesla's stratospheric valuation is not so crazy after all
Billionaire Elon Musk has built his career on the audacity of hype, but using traditional metrics to try to explain the value of his $520 billion electric car company may be missing the point.
Nikola Tesla was one of the world’s most brilliant, if eccentric, inventors.
While not out feeding pigeons on night-time strolls, the Serbian-American engineer re-imagined the uses of electricity, radio and robotics and patented 278 inventions. But he died in poverty in 1943.
