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Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

johnm6875

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Apr 13, 2016
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Auburn
Really? And what is your time estimate for when those conditions will be achieved? If you don’t know, what's your rationale for calling them reasonable?
The conditions were reasonable in the middle of March, but we're in May now. All of the conditions should be quantified, detailed and listed with expected completion dates. Anything less adds to the sense frustration.
 

wipster

Gold Member
Nov 10, 2013
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14,345
Kennewick, WA
Looks like a foggy view from the valleys here without all the diverse cities, towns, sites to be close enough to drive to. A lot of people here invested wisely in companies they worked at or they invested in others in the tech/bio/whatever field and did well for themselves. So they have a comfortable life here and great view, great year-round weather and the rest. As for real estate, timing is everything. We could up and move for a cheaper home or less in taxes but know we’d be selling out for that and regret it in the end. Have several friends who sold and moved out of state for family, work or retirement reasons and they have occasionally told us they wish they hadn’t but now can’t afford to move back. People adjust and make due wherever they live and hopefully live a happy life but most still dream of living in California.
Sigh... why does everyone think that Washington ends at the Cascades? The east side isn't Bellevue. The majority of the state is beautiful shrub-steppe environment and where I live (where the mighty Columbia turns north and intersects with the Snake and the Yakima) the sun shines 300 days a year and we average 7" of rain annually. We're surrounded by so many wonderful wineries I've lost track and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (which would make a fantastic partner for Tesla) is in our backyard. Power costs just over 7 cents per kwh and home prices are extremely low compared to the West side of the state. Two interstates, the Railroad, a recently upgraded airport, along with the river provide great transportation as well. I guess the only bad thing about living here is the wind, which at times doesn't just blow, it sucks.

But my point is there is a lot more to Washington than Seattle. Kind of like the undiscovered country, at least from a manufacturing perspective. And while I've traveled all around the US in a prior life, there is no place I'd rather live... well maybe Kelowna, but that's for another time.
 

Silent Ludicrosy

Supporting Member
Mar 14, 2018
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Phoenix
Elon clarifies tweet storm
Elon Musk on Twitter
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LJS22

Active Member
Mar 21, 2019
1,081
7,536
Texas
Effing genius. Never thought I would ever hear this kind of reporting from Fox News about an EV or Tesla. Not one word about “subsidies” or “for wealthy elite”.

Tesla CEO slams California Gov. Newsom over stay-at-home order
Fox effing News with the Tesla ad of the year! “You want this gorgeous car? Too bad it sold out..they can’t make em right now you’d be damn lucky to have this gorgeous car but too bad Elon Musk is banned from making! Freedom!!”
 

SO16

Active Member
Feb 25, 2016
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USA
Effing genius. Never thought I would ever hear this kind of reporting from Fox News about an EV or Tesla. Not one word about “subsidies” or “for wealthy elite”.

Tesla CEO slams California Gov. Newsom over stay-at-home order


Elon is a marketing genius. Fox News is praising Tesla. They wouldn’t have if Elon said Newsom was right.

Government did the proper thing initially with the shutdown but now it’s time to start opening things up. Especially Tesla because they know how to run their business during COVID. They are able to do it in Shanghai.
 

Steve m

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Sep 30, 2018
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Earth
"back of the napkin calculations". Everyone keeps using this phrase. FWIW, the original phrase is "back of the envelope" calculations. When you think about it, how does one tell the back of a napkin from the front?
A big chunk of silicon valley was drawn up on the napkins of the Wagon Wheel in Mountain View CA
 
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ClimateOptimst

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Dec 11, 2018
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bubb

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Jun 3, 2013
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Santa Monica, CA

Great, so this makes it pretty clear he is probably burning bridges left and right in his personal and professional life with anybody who dare disagrees with the undeniably controversial stuff that he *unnecessarily* posted. I consider this evidence that the situation is far from stabilized. Again: Publish a damn plan to reopen the factory safely to challenge the (presumed) county and state position instead of this egomaniacal crap. Handwaving about PPE, distancing, and contact tracing is not good enough for a facility that employs many thousands of people, bring some SUBSTANCE to your debate man!

Also, lmao at the oh-so-predictable posts that think that a positive Fox News story indicates 5d gigabrain PR rather than dregs on the backend of a complete PR disaster. The company did an amazing job in Q1 and deserved a victory lap, and he managed to set that on fire *checks watch* 30 minutes into the earnings call. I really hope someone in his life has the guts to intervene, it hurts to see such self-destructive behavior play out in public.
 

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