Well, with Jimmie out of the way, the next twelve months should give us a pretty clear view of how effective they are. If they can put together a clear roadmap to growth and profitability and start to deliver on that, then we can say it was all Jimmie messing things up previously. If they fail to deliver a path forward than we can say that they were partly to blame for the previous failures as well.
I'm also far less concerned with Jimmie's ego than him siphoning off all the profit in the business for himself. As I've mentioned before, Elon has a big ego, but he also backs that up with results. He also didn't pay himself a salary, and was strongly aligned to shareholders interests. Jimmie has placed himself in opposition to shareholders interests by paying as much of the free cashflow of the business to himself as he can get away with....which ultimately he didn't get away with as he's now been fired.
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