Re:Tesla Plunges After a Conference Call
by ryandrake on Thursday May 03, 2018 @02:52PM
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Are these shareholders he’s talking to, or investment bank analysts trying to get the CEO to fill in their spreadsheets for them? I guess I’d be a bad CEO but I don’t get why an “investor” call should be about the company showing respect, bowing down and kissing Wall Street’s ring.
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Re:Tesla Plunges After a Conference Call
by throwaway2048 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @03:19PM
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There is a difference between asking straightforward financial questions from his shareholders with grace and tact and "bowing down and kissing Wall Street’s ring"
Yes his shareholders, you know the people that were specificly invited to this call, own the company and that he has to directly answer to, by law.
Instead musk decided to childishly deflect.
On this specific point, he refused to answer two questions from (Wall St) analysts, and instead got questions from a (retail) shareholder. That would seem to be the right priority, even though his attitude was wrong.