Elon Musk cites investors' opinions for deciding to keep company public

Late last week, Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, announced he had withdrawn plans to take the electric car maker private.

In a blog post on the company's website, the outspoken boss stated he spent the last few weeks talking to advisors Silver Lake, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, as well as investors large and small.

During his discussions with large investors, they told him they had "internal compliance issues that limit how much they can invest in a private company".

As many analysts and industry experts had predicted, Musk also discovered there is "no proven path for most retail investors to own shares if we were private".

Despite the overwhelming message being "'please don’t do this'", Musk insists there is "more than enough funding" to go private and a "majority of shareholders" would have stayed with the company.