# Professor Aswath Damodaran shares his thoughts on the value of Tesla and asserts that Elon Musk is the company's biggest danger to future growth

1 Faculty News January 24, 2020 ![WIRED logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032348.jpg?itok=Wszefc-R)>

Excerpt from [WIRED](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tesla-valuation) -- "[Aswath Damodaran](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), a professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University and an expert in market valuations, says that Tesla's rise in the last six months can largely be attributed to one single thing: Musk has been uncharacteristically quiet."

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