Elon Musk struggled massively with the pressure of Tesla being a public company. Many see the company as an obvious, insane success — especially as it trades at a P/E ratio of 357.29 — but the stress of getting Tesla to profitability and the difficulty dealing with quarterly financial analyst … [continued]
The SpaceX IPO will happen in a few days. Will it make millionaires of us all or leave many investors in tears?
Elon Musk says that he wants SpaceX and Tesla teams to work together to build 100 gigawatts of solar power manufacturing capacity in the US — cells and modules. And he wants to do that within three years. There’s a lot to consider here. Before we get into some of … [continued]
Steve Hanley had an excellent article this week discussing how the SpaceX IPO may well be a boondoggle to bail out a couple of Elon Musk ventures and enrich a few friends. It’s honestly a bit shocking once you get into the details of the IPO. I think most of … [continued]
SpaceX plans to go public next month. Will new investors see substantial gains or covering Elon’s losses from his misadventures?
Opposition to AI and the enormous data centers it will need in the future is growing in the US, as people begin to see the risks.
Class action lawsuits against Tesla have been running for a while based on the claims and promises Elon Musk has made about Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) over the past decade. Basically, people who spent a lot of money expecting Full Self Driving to work within a reasonable period of … [continued]
Should a man who cannot make automatic windshield wipers work be trusted to make cars that drive themselves?
Andrej Karpathy was Tesla’s AI lead well before AI was everywhere all the time. At the very early part of the AI hype cycle, he was the only AI guy many people knew. He led Tesla’s efforts toward Full Self Driving (FSD) for years, and it’s still not exactly clear … [continued]
Ah, it’s the important stuff. Titans of industry are in China this week with Donald Trump to meet with the most powerful man in the world, Xi Jinping. Something is afoot. Maybe. I’ll get to that in a moment. But first, what gets attention from one of the biggest newspapers … [continued]
