By what metric? Love it or hate it, Tesla is a huge success story.

there are tons of known problems with their hardware and engineering. plus lawsuits from employees, etc. stock price covers a lot of things up, but "well run" can still be evaluated

Tesla is the first U.S. auto company to go public since Ford did so in 1956. Is that not good enough?

Seems well run enough to pull that off.

Tesla was started less than 20 years ago and sold nearly 1 million cars last year.