News Summary

• Gavin Newsom called Elon Musk “one of the great disappointments” of this era, adding, “It breaks my heart.” Musk is by a considerable margin the richest man in recorded history.
• California’s relationship with Tesla is a story of a state bending over backward for a company that took everything on offer and kept its hands clean of nothing.
• The arrangement worked because each man needed Musk as living proof that environmental regulation and world-changing technology could coexist.