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Which is a tragedy - people occasionally need to take breaks to be more productive.
6 weeks is quite the break, personally. Does that increase productivity more than 3 or 4 weeks, for example? Not saying we don't deserve that sort of time off, but it seems somewhat excessive given the circumstances.
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Which is a tragedy - people occasionally need to take breaks to be more productive.
6 weeks is quite the break, personally. Does that increase productivity more than 3 or 4 weeks, for example? Not saying we don't deserve that sort of time off, but it seems somewhat excessive given the circumstances.
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If people have multi-billion bets against your employer and they want to pay for an ominous sounding article, then yes.
100% this is the case.
Usual disclaimer: TSLA shareholder
Is it normal in America to be in the news when you take some vacations?
This timing seems about right to me. Most of the wrinkles appear to be out of the Model 3 production now. Designing the Model Y is about to start. Right now would be the right time to take some well deserved R&R.
Yeah, with what information the general public has, this could just as easily be spun as 'Engineering chief takes well deserved break after months of crunch successfully implementing Model 3 mass production.' Even if output production isn't as high as was initially planned, doesn't mean it's a failure.
For comparison on mass production: "more than 15 million Model Ts were manufactured in all, reaching a rate of 9,000 to 10,000 cars a day in 1925, or 2 million annually" [1]. Toyota was producing 13,400 units per day in 2014.
Model3 is currently somewhere around 300 to 500 per day.
This timing seems about right to me. Most of the wrinkles appear to be out of the Model 3 production now. Designing the Model Y is about to start. Right now would be the right time to take some well deserved R&R.
Yeah, with what information the general public has, this could just as easily be spun as 'Engineering chief takes well deserved break after months of crunch successfully implementing Model 3 mass production.' Even if output production isn't as high as was initially planned, doesn't mean it's a failure.
But this article definitely feels like someone just trying hard to find an angle to cast a deprecating light on Tesla. Like a "vested interests" type of feeling.
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> Investors need to know. Really? That's nonsense. This sentiment is a great example of what's so toxic about the public markets now. Everyone is complaining that so much value creation is happening in private companies going public later - a big reason is because of this idea that investors should care about when one person at a 36,000 person company goes on vacation and that this should move the stock price. Ridicu…
Don’t want to deal with it? Don’t go public. Zero sympathy. You take the public’s money, you owe them your word. Maybe if you had hundreds of thousands invested in TSLA and were concerned about their downward spiral you’d think different.
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A vacation of several weeks when you’re a chief? Most certainly. Investors need to know.
> Investors need to know. Really? That's nonsense. This sentiment is a great example of what's so toxic about the public markets now. Everyone is complaining that so much value creation is happening in private companies going public later - a big reason is because of this idea that investors should care about when one person at a 36,000 person company goes on vacation and that this should move the stock price. Ridicu…