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Re:‘Self-driving is hard’? No Duh, Elon by fourseventy on Friday July 09, 2021 @07:41AM (#27782646)
Ya because zip2, PayPal, Tesla Roadster, Tesla Model S , Tesla Model X, Tesla Model 3 , SpaceX Falcon 1, SpaceX Falcon 9, SpaceX Falcon Heavy are all vaporware....
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Re:‘Self-driving is hard’? No Duh, Elon by maverick-iceman on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:18AM (#27784557)
None of those things ever made any money. They survive thanks to constant equity raises and government subsidies.

All Musk companies failed to produce profits or positive FCF, they were all sold to bigger fools who didn't look under the hood.

At Paypal for example there wouldn't have been a hood at all if it wasn't for the board firing Musk and bringing in Peter Thiel.

SolarCity exactly the same, solely the bigger fools now were the shareholders of the other publicly traded company which fails to make positive FCF

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Re:‘Self-driving is hard’? No Duh, Elon by jonfw on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:20AM (#27784591)
Tesla makes money
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Re:‘Self-driving is hard’? No Duh, Elon by fakedang on Friday July 09, 2021 @01:22PM (#27786095)
From Bitcoin Arbitrage and selling carbon credits to other companies.
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