It’s a classic Elon Musk move. Tesla released some pretty grim first-quarter numbers on Tuesday, showing that net income dropped more than 50% from last year. During the earnings call, however, Musk floated his “new” vision for the electric car company.

And so, now in 2024, Musk is trying his hand at a comeback story of his own, and appears to be following Zuckerberg’s lead. Wall Street had complained that he had been wayward in his main job at Tesla, which is selling cars. Musk eked out some concessions to that. “We did overcomplicate the sales process,” he said at one point during the call.

Anthony said there are two main issues that make cars — and electric cars, in particular — imperfect nodes for a distributed computing project. First, you have to rely on the