Inventor
On JudgeMarket, Nikola Tesla trades at a premium inflated well above where his technical ledger alone would price him, because the internet decisively re-rated him over the last two decades. The bid is substantive: AC power systems, the induction motor, and early wireless work are real, foundational contributions. The offer, quietly, is the hagiography — many inventions popularly credited to him were incomplete, unbuilt, or genuinely developed by others, and the "betrayed genius" narrative papers over his own business and engineering mistakes. The result is a legitimate pioneer with a meme premium traders either embrace or fade. Against Isaac Newton, Tesla prices much lower on pure scientific revolution but higher on popular brand. Albert Einstein is the cleaner science comparable, with far less mythology overhang dragging on the multiple. Elon Musk carries some correlation as the Tesla-branded modern beneficiary of the name. Volatility is moderate: Tesla is a cult-favorite name that re-rates on internet narrative cycles more than on new historical evidence.
