Brian Mulberry, client portfolio manager at Zacks Investment Management, said that with Tesla CEO Elon Musk now "live-tweeting his current responsibilities inside the government," it's hard to avoid that "key man risk" that comes with Musk being so closely tied to the EV maker's brand.

Tesla’s stock continues to pullback, as the souring of public opinion toward CEO Elon Musk fuels worries of lower sales.

Fundraising in the private-markets business can be tough. Wining and dining big investors for each new vehicle creates an endless treadmill. Worse, the typical closed-end fund structure ignores individual investors, locking out trillions of dollars of private wealth.

Altman and Musk were OpenAI’s founding co-chairs in 2015, but their relationship has devolved into name-calling, lawsuits and now a near $100 billion bid from Musk for OpenAI.