Don't fear the stock's recent sell-off. In a surprise all-hands meeting with Tesla staffers Thursday night, he said employees should "hang on to your stock" despite it losing roughly half its value since December.

Earlier this week, one of Tesla's most bullish supporters in the financial space broke the glass and pulled the alarm. "Let's call it like it is," Wedbush managing director Dan Ives wrote in a note to investors. "Tesla is going through a crisis and there is one person who can fix it... [CEO Elon] Musk."