Musk has brought a lot of visibility to Tesla over the years, which it has benefited from, but make no mistake—he didn’t build Tesla. The engineers, scientists, developers and technicians at Tesla built Tesla.

Tesla has outgrown Musk. The board of directors, and the shareholders, need to see this and cut him loose. Let him grow SpaceX and xAI the way Tesla has. Let be an incubator and a hype machine—that’s what he’s good at—rather than an accelerator.