International Marketing. The Tesla Brand

Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,7, International School of Management, Campus Munich, language: English, abstract: Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk, together with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, are probably the greatest entrepreneurs to date. Besides Tesla, Elon Musk also coordinates the companies SpaceX, Hyperloop and SolarCity. To understand Musk’s ambition and goals we need to see all of these companies as one unit and approach. Each company underlies the concept of the usage of renewable energies or to achieve sustainability with the unified goal to protect or safe our world. In terms of SpaceX this is established due to the goal to colonize the mars as a living alternative to our earth, SolarCity aims at creating homes fully running with solar energy, Hyperloop is an approach to shift and accelerate traffic and transportation under the ground and lastly, Tesla is manufacturing electric vehicles in order to reduce CO2-Emissions. As it could be seen, all these companies, founded or coordinated by Elon Musk, are operating in different areas, but are combined in their unified goal to make the world better. Therefore, we must say that Elon Musk is the greatest and most important asset or capital all of these firms possess. This explains, why the majority of the American citizens have high hopes in him and for what reason business analysts are rating Tesla in the range of general motors and ford, some well-established car manufacturers since years, as stated in the case study. Nonetheless, some people are wondering why Tesla is meant to have such a bright future despite of their recent struggles in terms of production difficulties, which made them neglect their forecasts and demands, and occurred accidents due to failures of their autonomous driving software. The answer to all this, and why Tesla doesn’t have to deal with severe downgrading of Tesla’s stock price, is due to the fact that to a high percentage the ratings are dependent on their CEO Elon Musk.