There seems to be a personality type that is willing to entertain wild ideas and ignore "reality". Sometimes that results in actual new possibilities that nobody else was crazy enough to consider before. So there is potential value.

But often it just means ignoring reality and reallocating the resources that are available in favor of a few.

Tesla was a great company because they proved that electric cars could not only succeed but could accel (and accelerate! ... I do love seeing a family car kick a stupid ICE car's ass on the dragstrip.

But they pushed too far, promoting self driving at the cost of lives.

And for the anti-government people out there, Tesla would not exist had it not been for government funding.

Even so, the guy at the helm had enough chutzpah to believe his own crazy big ideas and follow through with them. Unfortunately, he followed through well beyond the real successes and far into lunatic territory.