In a series of posts on X Monday night, Musk said that he would not want to grow Tesla to become a leader in artificial intelligence and robotics without a compensation plan that would give him ownership of around 25% of the company’s stock. That would be about double the roughly 13% stake he currently owns.

Just casually asking for a roughly 80 Billion dollar pay raise. But at this point would Tesla be better off without him?

  • No1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Every time I leave my house, I see dozens of Teslas driving around. If they’re not profitable, then they’re horrifically bad at making money. They’re ubiquitous. Pretty impressive market penetration for a business run by people who don’t know what they’re doing.

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      1 year ago

      Their single biggest revenue stream is selling carbon credits. They’re basically a regulatory arbitrage business with a side hustle in cars.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah but in their cases the “hustle” got them the funds to move into their current space. Musk just had so much money that Tesla outlasted all the red it was in. Same thing going on with Twitter.

          We all know it’ll never fully go under, he has too much money for it too. It’ll last long enough to sooner or later come back up.

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            1 year ago

            That depends on how bullshit the numbers really are. If it is just Jack Welch level of financial shenanigans, you can see a stump version of the company eventually surviving. If it is worse than that, then probably not.

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      1 year ago

      Enron was a huge business that had millions of customers. It just happened to lose money while doing so. The crime was that they hid that last part.

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        1 year ago

        Also they deliberately turned off people’s power for more money. Like, scum-of-the-earth.

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      1 year ago

      Might be area dependant. Lots of them where I work at not many at all where I live at about an hour away.