Re:Elon Musk texts Larry Page about investing in Tesla (2018)
by reducesuffering on Saturday April 23, 2022 @09:11PM
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I'm just baffled you live in a world where Amazon with $400b sales is an example of achievement, but Tesla at $54b is an example of failure and cult. So does that make Nvidia ($27b), Visa and Mastercard (combined $43b), and Coca Cola ($39b) failures too?
Re:Elon Musk texts Larry Page about investing in Tesla (2018)
by McLaren_Ferrari on Saturday April 23, 2022 @09:26PM
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I measure companies success/failure like I measure humans' :
How many lives are gonna be disrupted if a company/human disappeared overnight? And how much the quality of life of the population is gonna go down the sink?
In each and every case as the companies you mentioned the answer is a lot on both counts.
Tesla, Porsche (35B) , the brands I have in my handle (Ferrari , McLaren) , Lamborghini, Gulfstream, Bombardier, Gucci, Sea-Ray....the answer is: not a much on both counts for all of them.
Nobody cries for the toys of the rich, not even the rich because they can easily pivot towards other toys
Amazon has total domination in the enterprise cloud business and is the largest player in online retail.
But you know in the world of contraries , winning is a huge liability because it means you arrived at the end of the road, whereas failing to achieve more than 1.5% of market share in 20 years is a huge success because it allows people to daydream of infinite curves which go up & to the right forever after slouching for 20 years /s
If you are good, you are good from the get go.