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I have a question about Tesla Motors that I do hope will be responded to by people who are in the know. My daughter will graduate this year at the top of her class with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from one of the top 5 engineering programs in the U.S. Her prospects are wide open but she is only interested in working at one company: Tesla Motors. The choice of course is hers to make, but it concerned me to learn that the CEO of Telsa was Paypal's founder, not someone steeped in the automobile business. It would seem in fact that Tesla Motors is actually more of a dot-com company than a car company.

Is this business thought likely to have a likely permanent presence in the automotive industry? My concern is not that my daughter needs to latch onto lifetime employment but that Tesla will end up in ruins, become a permanent punchline in the industry and will hurt rather than help her in her career when it appears on her resume.

Thoughts?