• 40% the amount the stock increased on its IPO day (it was a great day)
• 3.85% the amount the NASDAQ as a whole fell today (it was a bad day)

Elon Musk scored big, too

• $70M the amount that Musk put into Tesla Motors all by himself – he was broke before today
• $650Mthe amount that Musk’s share in the company is worth after today – not bad, duder
• $15M the amount Musk took out to ensure his Tony Stark-like life can continue source

• good Elon Musk, the guy who founded Paypal and runs Tesla Motors has a career so storied that the movie “Iron Man 2” is reportedly based on him. He’s kinda like Tony Stark in real life, kids.
• bad Musk, however, has burned through all of his money trying to get Tesla Motors off the ground (along with a divorce), and he had a lot of it to burn through – over $100 million. source