Elon Musk, Alfred Sloan, and entrepreneurship in the automobile industry.\nThe entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation. If you want to understand the future of Tesla and Elon Musk\u2019s role \u2013 something many want to do, given the constant stream of headlines about the company \u2014 you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20th Century.