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Nomura Instinet’s Shah discusses Musk’s importance to Tesla and the prospect of the electric car maker going public. (Source: Bloomberg)
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For five days this summer, Tesla Inc. survived without Elon Musk on the factory floor. He attended his brother’s wedding in Spain and took his kids to Belfast so they could see the set of “Game of Thrones.”

When the wedding came up during a recent New York Times interviewBloomberg Terminal, the trip was described as a quick dash in and out. Musk lamented having barely enough time to savor the moment, with the newspaper reporting that he arrived two hours before the ceremony and returned to Tesla’s factory immediately after. (Bloomberg News pieced together the details of his trip from Musk’s tweets and flight data.)