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Tesla’s Engineering Chief Takes Leave of Absence at Pivotal Moment

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Post by freyir »

dforrestwilson wrote: post #54
Florin_Andrei wrote: post #28

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I'm getting the impression that there's some kind of axe-grinding going on in the general region of WSJ when it comes to Elon. Not sure why. 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.

Head of Sales Chief Financial Officer Chief Accounting Officer Treasurer Director of Battery Tech All gone in the past year. That's a notable amount of turnover. Some of them left a lot of options on the table when they chose to depart. It's odd, and probably what triggered an entire article about something as normally mundane as a leave of absence.

Also their VP of Autopilot Software, out the door after 6 months.

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Post by beambot »

throwaway5752 wrote: post #48
ajross wrote: post #42

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No one has multi-billion bets against TSLA. It's only like 25% off its all time high and has a market cap bigger than GM.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/key-statistics?p=TSLA A bit down the page on the right, you'll see "Shares Short", "Short Ratio", "Short % of Float", and "Shares Short (prior month)". What that is telling you is that almost $10B of Tesla stock has been borrowed and sold (with the profit coming from buying in the future at lower prices, ie, betting against TSLA). That is increased about 7% from the prior month, a…

Is this short ratio atypical? I presume it involves some major institutional investors being against TSLA, but is there a good way to determine who?

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Post by empath75 »

nodesocket wrote: post #77

How many times are we going to see outrage news that would lead us to believe a company is on the brick of disaster, yet the opposite occurs. Instead of using emotions, let me present facts with stock prices: United Airlines passenger pulled off PR disaster stock was up 13% 3 months later. Facebook cambridge analytica at lows at $160. Today $FB closed at $186.99. Tesla report of death while car was in autopilot and p…

It is until it isn’t.

The market is still willing to shrug off news like that because we’re not in a recession or a bear market yet.

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Post by dagw »

forapurpose wrote: post #65
zimpenfish wrote: post #60

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> Journalists are supposed to be dispassionate. This has never been true, has it?

> This has never been true, has it? That's like saying everybody lies, therefore nobody has ever been honest. Sure, journalists are human and have emotions and make mistakes, but it's not a binary issue; it's a continuum. Journalists generally should strive to be dispassionate.

Dispassionate people don't work 20 hour days for weeks on end for hardly any money, digging into a story that they know might not ever lead anywhere.

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Post by southern_cross »

I read an article quite a while back (might be a couple of years ago now) that did the math and concluded that, unless some serious "magic" happened, Tesla was going to lose major coin on every Model 3 sold. Then I read an article just a couple of days ago that said that, in fact, Tesla IS losing major coin on every Model 3 sold. Who knew?

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Post by personjerry »

nodesocket wrote: post #80
moomin wrote: post #79

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Yeah, I remember when Enron used to shrug off negative news by showing their stock price graphs. The market doesn’t always price in bad news, until it does.

Do you honestly believe Tesla and Elon are flat out lying and committing fraud like Enron/Skilling though? If you do, that is fine, but I'd be curious to hear your argument.

I believe you’re too focused on the example (“Enron”) and missing the point (“The market doesn’t always price in bad news, until it does.”) of the parent comment.

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Post by dpark »

meritt wrote: post #32
robbiep wrote: post #31

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What’s the point of the comparison? Model T manufacture started in 1908 and by the end of 1910 they had produced 12,000. By that comparison, model 3 is crushing it

Ford literally invented the assembly line. Tesla has a century of expertise to learn from. Tesla has also been producing ~2000/wk S&X's for almost two years now; however they just recently (last week of March) exceeded 2,000 3's in a week, 9 months into production.

> Ford literally invented the assembly line.

No, he didn’t. The assembly line existed before Ford applied it to cars.

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Post by secfirstmd »

forapurpose wrote: post #67
akamaka wrote: post #57

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I lost respect for WSJ because of their continuous anti-Tesla editorials. I’m not at all a Tesla fanboy, but the WSJ commentary on subsidies are just trashy attacks that are devoid of any logic or context, given that the help that other industries and automakers have received. For example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2015/02/16/tesla-sho...

> WSJ ... editorials Twice I conducted a study: I collected everything on their op-ed page over a week or two and coded them for their political stance. I think there were a couple pro-Democratic/liberal pieces out of over a hundred, and a few criticized the Republicans;[0] all the rest were pro-GOP/conservative or anti-liberal/Dem (plus a few that were apolitical). (And if you think the NY Times is the same, you're…

It's owned by Rupert Murdoch, that shouldn't be a surprise.
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