Good analysis of this very unusual company. Musk is doing great stuff but investors should be cautious since there is big downside as well.
Tesla Doesn’t Burn Fuel, It Burns Cash
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#12WTF. Criticism regarding Teslas prospects, cash flow and viability as a company may all be valid. But the ridiculous animation and the live cash counter immediately take all credibility away for me. What credible news source would present a financial news article in this way?
I think these articles are the work of their PR. Because they want to paint what they are trying to do to be Impossible.
Even though this might be common knowledge, Elon Musk wants to inspire blind belief aka create a reality distortion field around him. For this, continuously emphasizing the impossibility of what they are trying to achieve is very important..
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#13"“Elon Musk is an engineer, and so he treats raising capital as one element that he needs to solve,” said Andrea James, a former analyst" How is Musk an engineer? Musk has a degree in physics and economics according to Wikipedia. At least where I'm from, you don't call yourself or someone else an engineer if you didn't go to engineering school.
At least where I'm from, you don't call yourself or someone else an engineer if you didn't go to engineering school.
What Musk was doing 25 years ago when he was at university isn't important any more. Are we supposed to just ignore the 25 years of experience he's gained since?
It's very simple: if he does engineering then he is an engineer, regardless of what degree he holds.
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#14Oh no! Someone died in a car! How could it be??!!
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#15WTF. Criticism regarding Teslas prospects, cash flow and viability as a company may all be valid. But the ridiculous animation and the live cash counter immediately take all credibility away for me. What credible news source would present a financial news article in this way?
I agree that the counter makes no sense. There's just no way to put it into any perspective other than "that's a lot of money for me as a person". The graphics I thought was witty though. Lets face it, Musk does a lot of publicity stunts like selling 20 000 flamethrowers, and using them in the graphics I thought was rather witty.
That said, I just don't know what to make of Tesla. The deposits schemes, financials etc, I just can't make my mind up if it is doing good or bad. On the other hand, a cult of personality that worships a guy building rockets, electric vehicles and so on seems preferable to many of the other celebrity cults around today. Lets hope a lot of people don't lose a bunch of money on it, I guess.
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#16"“Elon Musk is an engineer, and so he treats raising capital as one element that he needs to solve,” said Andrea James, a former analyst" How is Musk an engineer? Musk has a degree in physics and economics according to Wikipedia. At least where I'm from, you don't call yourself or someone else an engineer if you didn't go to engineering school.
Even if you agree with that how is "treating raising capital as one element that he needs to solve" work any better that the, you know, the other, non-engineer like methods others use to raise capital?
>work any better that the, you know, the other, non-engineer like methods others use to raise capital?
There's a trope amongst millennials than anything Musk touches is "better" than the methods anyone has ever done before. It's how you get people saying things like "Toyota doesn't know how to produce cars like Tesla does!" I think this mindset is dangerous.
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#17"“Elon Musk is an engineer, and so he treats raising capital as one element that he needs to solve,” said Andrea James, a former analyst" How is Musk an engineer? Musk has a degree in physics and economics according to Wikipedia. At least where I'm from, you don't call yourself or someone else an engineer if you didn't go to engineering school.
The word engineer is semantically bankrupt at this point.
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#18"“Elon Musk is an engineer, and so he treats raising capital as one element that he needs to solve,” said Andrea James, a former analyst" How is Musk an engineer? Musk has a degree in physics and economics according to Wikipedia. At least where I'm from, you don't call yourself or someone else an engineer if you didn't go to engineering school.
At least where I'm from, you don't call yourself or someone else an engineer if you didn't go to engineering school. What Musk was doing 25 years ago when he was at university isn't important any more. Are we supposed to just ignore the 25 years of experience he's gained since? It's very simple: if he does engineering then he is an engineer, regardless of what degree he holds.
>It's very simple: if he does engineering then he is an engineer, regardless of what degree he holds."
So who doesn't do engineering? Are we all engineers? I put bandaids on my wounds, am I also a doctor?
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#19"“Elon Musk is an engineer, and so he treats raising capital as one element that he needs to solve,” said Andrea James, a former analyst" How is Musk an engineer? Musk has a degree in physics and economics according to Wikipedia. At least where I'm from, you don't call yourself or someone else an engineer if you didn't go to engineering school.
At least where I'm from, you don't call yourself or someone else an engineer if you didn't go to engineering school. What Musk was doing 25 years ago when he was at university isn't important any more. Are we supposed to just ignore the 25 years of experience he's gained since? It's very simple: if he does engineering then he is an engineer, regardless of what degree he holds.
> if he does engineering
Does he, though? He's CEO if 4 companies IIRC. I would be very surprised if that leaves you any time at all to do stuff that qualifies as engineering (in the traditional sense; not in the bullshit uptitling sense; "software engineer" is only one step from "ninja rockstar").
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least where I'm from, you don't call yourself or someone else an engineer if you didn't go to engineering school. What Musk was doing 25 years ago when he was at university isn't important any more. Are we supposed to just ignore the 25 years of experience he's gained since? It's very simple: if he does engineering then he is an engineer, regardless of what degree he holds.
> if he does engineering Does he, though? He's CEO if 4 companies IIRC. I would be very surprised if that leaves you any time at all to do stuff that qualifies as engineering (in the traditional sense; not in the bullshit uptitling sense; "software engineer" is only one step from "ninja rockstar").
So he's not a true Scotsman.. err.. engineer?