A hundred years before Elon Musk sent a Tesla car into outer space and then took the electric-vehicle company and its stock on a roller-coaster ride, that name was made famous for a time by another larger-than-life tech visionary—Nikola Tesla himself, arguably his era’s greatest inventor and most ill-fated entrepreneur. The original Tesla was in some ways a strange choice to be a namesake for a company looking to overcome obstacles and achieve groundbreaking business success. True, he pioneered many of technologies that still...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 14, 2018 18:33 UTC