Recent content by advocate8

I didn’t say there weren’t trolls, just that people are quick to label. Fair enough on some of the reposts being not particularly useful. That is partly due to the BS nature of the second-tier media and major influencers hyping tiny little balls of nothing to get eyeballs or because they need...

It’s also true that for many the thread had been an unwelcoming place for years and many who COULD have contributed took one look and scrammed. This was sometimes marveled at on other TMC threads more tightly focussed on specific Tesla topics, like I dunno, something technical with Model Ys...

He knows where the eyeballs are.

Well, most would cite another company he was spending time on. But OK, you're saying he was distracted and wasn't doing his job?

https://www.investors.com/news/apple-rivian-in-talks-for-partnership/ They could def use SOME form of rescue.

It’s possible. It’s also possible those things you list have been excessively applied. Sometimes making them flaws Tesla has survived despite of, rather than being ingredients in the secret sauce. That list also reads like rationalizations for recent debatable acts...

Mainly they didn’t get the early position they needed to survive this EV demand trough… as has been stated before and as we all know starting a car company from scratch historically has low chance of success. Rivian I still have hopes for. Their products are good, they had done pretty hefty...

No, missed that. I did notice the discourse has been more civil last few days.

I’ll put my track record for second guessing up against his any day.

We have ample facts to discuss it. It’s also possible HE didn’t have the facts he needed before acting. Has happened before.

Mars is irrelevant to people on an investment thread.

The market is indifferent to Mars.

And no one above her knew she had built a 500 person team? And then somehow someone assumed none of them were worth keeping. Who was running the company? I know I’d have a reasonable idea what was going on with the Supercharger team

Struggle to picture a business case changing so quickly that suddenly a 500 person team was redundant. Even if it changed with extraodrianr4y speed, we’re talking ok, you move 50 out. Then another 50... And... normal management dictates you figure out which people are your least productive and...

He needs to stick to engineering, though he is pretty good at sucking up to keep his access flowing. Look, either hiring the 500 member supercharging team was a huge mistake, or firing them was. There is no middle ground here. If there were 15-20 people on the team, or they were trimming a...