From the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33483751

It would seem desperately so.

Excited to watch Twitter go the way of Digg.

Elon doesn't

This is true.

To be honest, it's really money of Tesla shareholders that is at stake. Sure, Elon will take a hit, because the math is intractable. So this thing will go south, but it's Tesla shareholders that will eat most of the losses, not Elon.