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Securities

Oct. 9, 2018

Elon Musk, a modern-day Peter Pan

Unless an alarm sounds to immediately constrain Musk’s Neverland-like banter and play, the clock in the Croc will draw ever closer, putting shareholders and a promising young company at risk.

Ronald E. Wood

1st VP/ Senior Attorney
Brown White & Osborn LLP

333 S Hope St
Los Angeles , CA 90071

Email: rwood@brownwhitelaw.com

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Elon Musk, a modern-day Peter Pan
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In an October 2 "Perspective" piece for the Daily Journal, I chronicled the recent travails of Elon Musk and compared him and the technological innovators and ego he fully embodies with a pair of mythological creatures who brought misfortune and woe to many. I concluded with the observation that Musk's saving grace was that he was more akin to the swash-buckling military leader Odysseus than the hubristic Icarus.

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