I thought Microsoft would never make money in the software business. All the computer nerds I knew would pirate software and pass it around, I didn’t think they would sell enough to make any money. I was wrong.
Tesla cars. Making cars is a very tough competitive business. Hundreds of companies have failed, some run by very smart guys. I was surprised they ever go into production, surprised they lasted more than a year or 2, surprised they have not been overtaken by old established companies like Ford and Toyota getting into electric cars, surprised they are still in business and making a profit. I know they get criticized for quality control glitches but it is amazing they can produce a car as good as they do.
Middle management needs to justify their jobs. With their staff wfh, it’s all too clear that most provide no value.
They need physical eyes the peons. And the ability to judge their staff’s future income by fire well or poorly they play politics—which is difficult to do remotely.
“You need physical eyes on your staff” is a relatively easy sale.
Teslas days are numbered however. Now that the old established companies are making all electric vehicles and with Elon’s erratic bahvior I dont see a bright future. Tesla was useful in establishing an Electric car market and doing the heavy lifting of converting people to electric cars and for a longtime they were the only game in town. Musk was also seen in a better light. But things have been going down hill at an accelerated pace since the Twitter acquisition. People now would much rather buy a different electric car then support Musk
The money is in all the data Tesla is collecting and their charging infrastructure - which can sell or license to insurance companies, other car makers, and self driving software companies. When we buy/drive a Tesla - we just paid to be a data collector and beta testers.
Meh, they’ll probably fire Musk eventually, and if they do manage to ever pull off full autonomous-driving, that will be huge.
Although yeah, in the short term, electric cars are becoming fairly common and Tesla is basically just one of many options. Considering the CEO seems to be having some kind of very public mental breakdown, I wouldn’t be very confident about buying a Tesla anymore (especially considering future software updates have a huge effect on their cars).
I still think they’ll be around a long time though, or at least the brand name will be.
It is very very very hard to survive a technology paradigm shift in an industry. Could probably count on one hand the number of typewriter companies that survived to today as PC manufacturers. I think IBM was the last, when Lenovo sold to a Chinese company.
I thought Microsoft would never make money in the software business. All the computer nerds I knew would pirate software and pass it around, I didn’t think they would sell enough to make any money. I was wrong.
Tesla cars. Making cars is a very tough competitive business. Hundreds of companies have failed, some run by very smart guys. I was surprised they ever go into production, surprised they lasted more than a year or 2, surprised they have not been overtaken by old established companies like Ford and Toyota getting into electric cars, surprised they are still in business and making a profit. I know they get criticized for quality control glitches but it is amazing they can produce a car as good as they do.
Middle management needs to justify their jobs. With their staff wfh, it’s all too clear that most provide no value.
They need physical eyes the peons. And the ability to judge their staff’s future income by fire well or poorly they play politics—which is difficult to do remotely.
“You need physical eyes on your staff” is a relatively easy sale.
😂 actually it was Microsoft’s strategy to let people pirate their os to get mainstream adoption, and force companies to buy license.
Teslas days are numbered however. Now that the old established companies are making all electric vehicles and with Elon’s erratic bahvior I dont see a bright future. Tesla was useful in establishing an Electric car market and doing the heavy lifting of converting people to electric cars and for a longtime they were the only game in town. Musk was also seen in a better light. But things have been going down hill at an accelerated pace since the Twitter acquisition. People now would much rather buy a different electric car then support Musk
The money is in all the data Tesla is collecting and their charging infrastructure - which can sell or license to insurance companies, other car makers, and self driving software companies. When we buy/drive a Tesla - we just paid to be a data collector and beta testers.
Meh, they’ll probably fire Musk eventually, and if they do manage to ever pull off full autonomous-driving, that will be huge.
Although yeah, in the short term, electric cars are becoming fairly common and Tesla is basically just one of many options. Considering the CEO seems to be having some kind of very public mental breakdown, I wouldn’t be very confident about buying a Tesla anymore (especially considering future software updates have a huge effect on their cars).
I still think they’ll be around a long time though, or at least the brand name will be.
I was thinking of buying a Tesla years ago. Now? Nope. Choice and Elon are why.
the future of tesla isnt cars, its ai and batteries
More like legacy auto’s days are numbered.
It is very very very hard to survive a technology paradigm shift in an industry. Could probably count on one hand the number of typewriter companies that survived to today as PC manufacturers. I think IBM was the last, when Lenovo sold to a Chinese company.
Who hates musk except for Redditors?
Ford loses over $30k per EV sold at the moment.
isn’t Tesla subsidised?