Not sure what you're on about, both my comment and the article are about how they went for-profit.
They went for-profit because they needed to raise.
They raised after Elon reneged a fraction of the way into his promise of $1B. (and not 100MM deep: he silently revised his figures after TC started digging.)
It's not complicated but you seem to want to make it complicated.
Blaming any loss of Elon money for that is spin.
And he still gave them a hundred million.