Trina Mathews
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Ohhh this is new to me. Elon Musk may have a lot of bashers but without any doubt, he is indeed using his brain cells.
What has Elon Musk really done?
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Ohhh this is new to me. Elon Musk may have a lot of bashers but without any doubt, he is indeed using his brain cells.
DunderMannen
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Well... if we take me for example. I haven't done much, but then again I don't have a stock that's valued @ 880$. If your company is that hyped, you should've done more than just some PR stunts imo
You forgot hyperloop, which literally does 0 besides looking cool lol
DunderMannen
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Well... hyping the tesla car when in reality - the batteries are nothing new. Hyperloop - won't work. SpaceX - won't work (at least for now). Everything he has "done" are just visions. As others said - if I had a million dollar marketing budget I could also come up with cool things that don't work/are needed in reality.
It's just like Theranos, just a big concept that got valued @ 9 BILLION DOLLARS. Crazy shit...
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Hyperloop has a cool name though, no? That's smth.
SamLewis
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Even Hyperloop wasn't his idea. Its based on prototypes from literally a century before.
He can repackage 100 year old ideas and sell them on and idiots will buy it.
DunderMannen
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Yup! Same with the Tesla batteries, there's literally nothing new. The better capacity is just because the batteries are bigger in size, not because they have better battery volume...
DunderMannen
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Well... I don't think he'll reach Mars. At least not before NASA.
Ed Roy
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I would say he is a great marketer rather than a great revolutionary guy. No offense to him and people who follow him (Elon Musk) but to be honest I think, he is just selling dreams to us. This is what I am seeing, for now, I can't say what will happen in the future.
DunderMannen
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Look it up, he hasn't revolutionized anything besides making concepts into prototypes. Check out the cars, they're not that good besides it's good looks...
Agreed!
ExperimentalSEO
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When the hype around Tesla finally dies the stock will crash, they barely sell any cars yet their market cap is higher than GM,Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen, Stellantis(Fiat and Peugeot owner merged) combined.
Volkswagen is already outselling tesla in mature EV markets, and all those companies are introducing lots of new EV models by 2025.
A few years ago, tesla was really the only EV option you could buy if you wanted an EV, now there are lots of options and even more coming in the next few years.
Tesla should be in the $25-50 billion market cap range not the $750-1,000 billion range.
Volkswagen is already outselling tesla in mature EV markets, and all those companies are introducing lots of new EV models by 2025.
A few years ago, tesla was really the only EV option you could buy if you wanted an EV, now there are lots of options and even more coming in the next few years.
Tesla should be in the $25-50 billion market cap range not the $750-1,000 billion range.
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Yes but the product as we know as paypal was xs product branded as paypal
AntiHacker
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Here is a cool infographic about Elon Musk life:
https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/elon-musk.png
It looks like everyone here has a degree in engineering, and everybody could do the same thing as he did but somehow for some reasons they didn't. That is called excuses.
Sandy Munro is THE guy for car manufacturing engineering, and he bashed Tesla cars for bad quality 3 years ago. He is now amazed at how fast Tesla is improving their cars. He said it himself that Tesla technology is 3-10 years ahead from what he saw in other car makers. So should we trust some random guy from the internet or Sandy Munro? This is a guy that analyze cars for living, big companies are paying him 6 figures for a detailed reports and his opinion.
I will put my money on guys like Sandy Munro or Elon Musk.
https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/elon-musk.png
It looks like everyone here has a degree in engineering, and everybody could do the same thing as he did but somehow for some reasons they didn't. That is called excuses.
Sandy Munro is THE guy for car manufacturing engineering, and he bashed Tesla cars for bad quality 3 years ago. He is now amazed at how fast Tesla is improving their cars. He said it himself that Tesla technology is 3-10 years ahead from what he saw in other car makers. So should we trust some random guy from the internet or Sandy Munro? This is a guy that analyze cars for living, big companies are paying him 6 figures for a detailed reports and his opinion.
I will put my money on guys like Sandy Munro or Elon Musk.
Larry Igna
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I don't really care about Elon Musk or SpaceX, but comparing their results with NASA's results is... Let's say is funny.
Start with budgets, then compare years since in business, then think about how many errors NASA has made (because for NASA it was easy to fail, being sponsored by a whole nation and also being pioneers in the field, mistakes are easy to forgive if nobody has done that task before) and then think how hard it is for a private company.
As a private company, funds are pretty much limited, investors will sanction any error ( hence, you build something using safe things, not some cutting edge technologies that may fail), also take into account you'd have to compress decades of experience in few years.
Take into account all factors, then you can compare the rockets. If you want.
SamLewis
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And there's many more dreamers than achievers which is why he is so successful.
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400 dreamers to one doer sound about right? Or closer to 4,000?
DunderMannen
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You do know NASA gives SpaceX contracts worth billions of dollars, right? Then what's the difference between NASA and SpaceX? Besides one being private.