It doesn’t really matter. That is mostly static from the pea nut gallery.
What he has done is create the company with a capitalization greater than that of Ford, GM and Chrysler combined. His last quarter sales were in the hundreds of thousands. He has the existing capacity tp produce millions of cars per year
He is now one of the greatest businessmen in American history ant what’s more........ he has become a Texan and all that implies
I disagree ! I think it does matter.
Because using your criteria of the amount of capitalization, that makes him more of a salesman (almost at the carnival barkerlevel!) then a businessman. Raising money is great, one leg of the businessman’s chair or stool. If raising money is all he does, he’s more of a Madoff then a Ford.