
Within the course of a week, the world witnessed two very different versions of Elon Musk.
On April 7, there was Musk basking in the glory of the opening of Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) new manufacturing facility in Austin — an event dubbed the “Cyber Rodeo” that brought the world’s media to Musk’s stage. The Tesla chief executive owned the spotlight while wearing a ten-gallon cowboy hat and dark aviator sunglasses, strutting with self-assurance as he launched his latest supersized endeavor — the new plant was not just any factory, but a Gigafactory.