Elon Musk’s Reputation of Genius Is Waning

Once thought to be the Messiah, he’s now Silicon Valley’s forbidden fruit.

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For as long as he’s been CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk kept enjoying the boons of favorable coverage from tech outlets for having redefined the norms of the automobile–his company successfully turned electric cars into a status symbol for the green-minded, and in turn was…