Elon Musk

Investors replaced me as Zip2’s chief executive and brought in a more experienced operator.

The X.com board replaced me as CEO while the company was becoming PayPal.

Falcon 1 failed on its first launch, losing the rocket shortly after liftoff.

Falcon 1 failed again on its second attempt and still did not reach orbit.

Falcon 1 failed for a third time, leaving SpaceX one launch away from running out of chances.

Tesla entered a severe cash crisis as Roadster delays and rising costs pushed the company close to collapse.

I promised the Model X for 2013, but customers did not receive the first production vehicles until 2015.

Model 3 entered ‘production hell,’ and Tesla repeatedly missed the manufacturing targets I announced.

My ‘funding secured’ tweets led to an SEC settlement, a $20 million penalty and my removal as Tesla chair.

I called a British cave rescuer ‘pedo guy,’ turning a rescue dispute into an international reputational crisis.

I unveiled the Cybertruck and its ‘armor glass’ shattered twice on stage.

I predicted the United States would have close to zero COVID-19 cases by the end of April. It did not.

Cybertruck slipped beyond its original production timetable after I had said deliveries would begin in 2021.

I tried to abandon my $44 billion Twitter deal, was sued, and then completed it at the original price.

Starship broke apart minutes into its first integrated flight test.

X’s monthly US advertising revenue kept falling year over year after my takeover.

A Delaware court rescinded my record Tesla pay package after finding the approval process deeply flawed.

Starship Flight 7 broke apart, scattered debris and forced aircraft to divert around the affected area.

Starship Flight 8 was also lost after a hardware failure caused propellant mixing and ignition.