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

[Chunky Jr.]

Tesla needs a new CEO and a new board.

@Right_Said_Fred you might have to order some more dislikes

 

[feigen66]

I am not going to die for Elon Musk's bonus.

I listened to the Apple earnings call today and nobody complained about the stay at home orders. Apple is not only focused on long term growth, but they also care about the safety of it's employees and customers. I sold some Tesla stock today and I will but some Apple tomorrow.

Elon Musk should get off twitter.

Ha, you probably have never visited Apple's manufacture in Shenzhen with Foxconn.
Foxconn suicides - Wikipedia
Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city

It's same as Google and Facebook claimed how much care about your privacy. Petty talk.

 

[AZRI11]

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) | Twitter

Edit for those who are new: Who's Fact Checking on the Tesla club forum?

I knew it

 

[mickificki]

I am not going to die for Elon Musk's bonus.

I listened to the Apple earnings call today and nobody complained about the stay at home orders. Apple is not only focused on long term growth, but they also care about the safety of it's employees and customers. I sold some Tesla stock today and I will but some Apple tomorrow.

Elon Musk should get off twitter.

Good luck growing your aapl stock 10x.

 

[kyzhk]

I am not going to die for Elon Musk's bonus.

I listened to the Apple earnings call today and nobody complained about the stay at home orders. Apple is not only focused on long term growth, but they also care about the safety of it's employees and customers. I sold some Tesla stock today and I will but some Apple tomorrow.

Elon Musk should get off twitter.

One thing I gathered on reddit and from some individuals is how little they understand paper wealth.

Past certain point (pretty low bar) the billions lost and billions gained reported in headlines are meaningless figures associated with stock fluctuation that has very little meaning.

Elon doesn't need any of the bonus and he could have retired some years ago with highest quality of life doing nothing. The bonuses meant much more as potential capital used to fuel space colonization than for personal enjoyment.

 

[EVortex]

Every day seems more and more like we are all living in the Matrix.

 

[ggr]

After-action Report: Thu, Apr 30, 2020: (Full-Day's Trading)

VWAP: $813.87
Volume: 28,494,622
Traded: $23,190,952,939.60 ($23.19 B)

Closing SP / VWAP: 95.99%
(TSLA closed BELOW today's Avg SP)​

FINRA Short/Total Volume = 40.7% (40th Percentile rank Shorting)
FINRA Volume / Total NASDAQ Vol = 51.2% (55th Percentile rank FINRA Reporting)

Comment: "Auto repair like it never happened"

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Your graph shows TSLA down 11%! I guess that's from high (near opening of pre-market) to low, but that doesn't jibe with the normal practice (of counting rise/fall from previous close).

 

[Green Pete]

I am not going to die for Elon Musk's bonus.

I listened to the Apple earnings call today and nobody complained about the stay at home orders. Apple is not only focused on long term growth, but they also care about the safety of it's employees and customers. I sold some Tesla stock today and I will but some Apple tomorrow.

Elon Musk should get off twitter.

Apples livlihood is also based off a bunch of american's who can work from home and a bunch of Chinese who have no choice.

 

[Green Pete]

Tesla needs a new CEO and a new board.

Curiously strong feelings for someone with 2 posts.

 

[Steve m]

A good friend and I were discussing TSLA and he stated that he didn't have the stomach for that roller coaster.

I remember a Hunter S Thompson quote and responded "I bought the ticket and am loving the ride"

 

[Steve m]

Tesla needs a new CEO and a new board.

TMC needs one fewer participants.

 

[Prunesquallor]

I am not going to die for Elon Musk's bonus.

I listened to the Apple earnings call today and nobody complained about the stay at home orders. Apple is not only focused on long term growth, but they also care about the safety of it's employees and customers. I sold some Tesla stock today and I will but some Apple tomorrow.

Elon Musk should get off twitter.

Tesla needs a new CEO and a new board.

 

[SageBrush]

They can choose to go back to work under the protocols listed for their business type or continue to shelter at home until such time as they believe the risk to themselves is tolerable.

Brilliant.

Why have protocols if each person does as they please ?

 

[Intl Professor]

And yet they still doubt my abilities.

To err is man. Some of my best friends are men.

 

[MC3OZ]

To err is man. Some of my best friends are men.

The Stoic Emperor on Twitter

The ignorant can be instructed.

It is the incurious who are in trouble.

 

[mickle]

Maybe its working:


In Silicon Valley, Elon Musk mobilizes a small army of tech elites behind reopening society

 

[StealthP3D]

My 2 cents -
Tesla is Elon and Elon is Tesla - there is no separating one from the other. So Tesla might as well come out and fully, but politely, support their leader and the opinion he has already publicized. Now, I am not saying come out and say that the local government is fascist, but if articulated properly, they could turn the tables and put the local Alameda county officials on the defensive. It might even give other local businesses a rallying point to demand similar explanations from the county officials why they have to remain shutdown

What I am thinking is a blog post over the weekend clearly laying out Tesla's position, rationale and arguments in favor of being allowed to open up with precautions.

• The local officials have done a fantastic job of 'flattening the curve'. The healthcare system is not overwhelmed as previously feared, with hospitalization rate is much lower than predicted.
• As Gov Newsom stated, opening up the economy in phases can now be started by allowing essential businesses to open. Mfg is essential business and with strict guidelines in place, should be allowed to open to keep the economy of the area moving.
• Tesla has a well thought out plan of how to manage opening keeping social distancing guidances in place. Experience from China and plans for Nevada/Buffalo factories
• All over US and the Western world, mfg is slowly being resumed, even in areas much harder hit than Bay areas. E.g. all other auto mfg in US, Ferrari in Italy etc
• It is surprising then that Alameda county will not allow opening, nor will they specify a timeline for this. All the points Elon brought up during the ER call about suppliers and small businesses who may not survive longer shutdowns can be explained more articulately than his twitter statements
• Politely ask for a clear justification for keeping businesses shutdown. Explain that just demanding things being shutdown with no explanations is not how things are done in a democracy.

If they can post it over the weekend, it gives folks time to read and digest this. It also gives a good and positively written basis for others to openly express support. Right now, even if folks agree with Elon about going back to work, most are not going to come out and openly support him because of this comments about fascism etc.

Well, just my thoughts. I am so tired of seeing the sound bites which were a minor part of the ER call, but became big bold headlines.

It looks like you are a high-functioning individual who "get's it".

Elon could have done what you are recommending without first making controversial comments but a true master has to pique interest and curiosity to gain a willing audience. Otherwise good rational and convincing arguments fall on deaf ears.

Short-sighted and superficial people appear unable to see how Elon is gaining a voice in this debate as it develops daily. They can only see the skin of the onion while everyone knows an onion has many layers. Elon is getting people to look at the layers inside the onion. It's so obvious it's comical to watch those who criticize him as if he is an emotional idiot who doesn't know exactly what he is doing.

 

[StealthP3D]

Maybe its working:


In Silicon Valley, Elon Musk mobilizes a small army of tech elites behind reopening society

And the movement is starting to solidify. Those who are unable to see how Musk gets from A-B by starting at C will never understand how things actually go down in the real world. The truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.

 

[Intl Professor]

The Stoic Emperor on Twitter

The incurious are the stable genius' of the world and their followers. A double dose of zero intellect.

 

[Krugerrand]

The Stoic Emperor on Twitter

I liked this one further down from Shane Parrish that’s applicable to Elon/Tesla/SpaceX:

Successful people are just unsuccessful people who know how to recover from mistakes.