Tesla is a wildly different story because they're quickly becoming the Apple of cars. They've convinced all the American automakers to use the Tesla charger, they're setting themselves up to basically own road charging
Keep in mind the $44B number was a joke offer he was forced to pay out. He knew it wasn’t worth as much, but he fucked around and found out.
According to NASDAQ, pre-purchase it was around $13B. And Elon claims it’s at $20B. So supposedly he has improved the net worth, but yes obviously he’s still $20B in the hole.
I bet investors wish he went full Elon.