"Why did they throw a party instead of telling a good story? It makes no sense to me."<p>It's really very simple - the party was announced in April, the same day Reuters revealed that Tesla discontinued work on a cheap Model 2. Tesla's stock price almost doubled in the following weeks.<p>People seem to forget that Musk's fortune is very closely tied to Tesla stock price, especially after he purchased Twitter and turned it into a money burning machine.