Well the long range cybertruck is 62k after tax rebate, which is almost palatable and arguably better than the cheapest F150 EV's, although the looks still might cause strife where strife is not needed.
I'm not sure they Cybertruck has suffered more quality issues than any other new car and platform. The big issue for me is if I got one, it would instantly be the most noticeable vehicle in the parking lot, and possibly the most expensive. I could afford the long range version, and in many ways it is a great deal, but I can't have a more noticeable car than the CEO or CTO lol. I assume you would have the same issue if you're buying cybertrucks as fleet vehicles, where people start accusing the ceo of wasting money, even if they're technically cheaper than a comparable EV pickup
> but I can't have a more noticeable car than the CEO or CTO lol
What kind of crazy company do you work for where this is something to worry about, at all?
Also no, I don't believe most new car platforms have problems with large metal bits coming off as you drive, at frequency high enough to cause a recall.
While there is certainly a lot of crap out there for business books, especially on sales/marketing and management, there are some core books that are must reads if you want to save 30 years of trial and error.
1. E-myth Revisited (absolute must read for small to midsize business owners)
2. Competitive Strategy
3. Discipline of Market Leaders
4. Good to Great
5. Built to Last
I disagree on "Good to Great" and "Built to Last". In hindsight, they're classic extrapolations of survivorship-bias in a specific era of business instead of durable business practices. It should be more accurately titled as "Built to Fail" considering how those profiled companies have faltered or floundered.
I highly recommend Buffett's letters to shareholders https://a.co/d/cc1ufM4 and Goldratt's "The Goal" https://a.co/d/iJjTf1y and Taleb's "Antifragile" https://a.co/d/4bjC74J . Aside from his mathematical treatment's of uncertainty (which are free), I wouldn't recommend any of Teleb's other books.
"Let My People Go Surfing" https://a.co/d/2hq7ngp doesn't work for all business, but I really found it personally inspirational.
If you like anti-fragile, I really recommend Fooled by Randomness and Black Swan. The Black Swan is a good example of a book with a good original idea that gets repeated so often its almost conventional wisdom, except that half the people saying it are misusing the term because they didn’t read the book.
I've read both of them and also the Bed of Procrustes. Though they're useful, I just feel the others are very classic "paper non-usefully expanded to book form" business titles whereas Antifragile's topic is benefited by the full treatise treatment.
Oooooh! I forgot about Atomic Habits. It's not only one of the best "business books" I've ever read. It's the single best "self-help" book I've ever read.
I disagree on "Seven Habits" as its model of "effectiveness" is only applicable to (for lack of a better term) extroverted vocations.
Good to great and built to last are just classic survivorship bias in book form. They are interesting as history books but not as actual analysis. They are fun reads but not to be taken seriously
Nothing in your post has anything to do with the fundamentals of Tesla's business. You are just echoing the anti-elon propoganda. The anti-Elon movement is a moment in time that will not affect the longterm viability of Tesla's business model.
Like it or not, Tesla as a company is still years ahead of other US competitors and has a significant competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Tesla is not "in bad shape" relative to the competition. IF you are going to talk about auto companies in "bad shape", Tesla doesn't even make the top 10
i refuse read the biased news from CNN or FOX or MSNBC
However, I've read countless Bloomberg articles on Tesla, and the company has significant competitive advantage over every automaker (Including BYD) when it comes to manufacturing and selling EV's in the US and elsewhere.
If you are inclined to drive an EV, or own stock in an EV company, Tesla is still the gold standard.
BYD has overtaken Tesla technically but isn't allowed in the US due to anti-competitive, pseudo-nativist protectionism (and also a lack of homologation which doesn't make financial sense because of the previous point.)
California farming is a major resource for US food and should be protected as a national security issue. Why haven't previous administrations implemented this apparently simple fix?
Other sources have pointed out that this will not help agriculture at this time, and just throws away water which might be sorely needed later in the year. In addition, the way it was performed risked damaging the downstream water-distribution infrastructure.
At best, this is just another example of the sort of nonsense we can expect from an administration which will not speak sense to power, but it could also be seen as a thinly-veiled threat to California and all other states dependent on resources controlled by the federal government.
(Don't take what follows as a judgement of your product. i haven't tried it and it may be amazing!)
What you are struggling with is simply a fact of life for any entrepreneur.
Get an idea, work on it, launch and discover if there is a market fit. IF no, move to next idea, start process over. Almost every great business has examples of pivoting from the original product or service and trying other ideas until landing on the one that hits.
You've built a tool. call it a your "prototype". first test case is you. do you like using it? does it truly make your life easier and more productive? IF your answer is meh, then put it aside and move on to other things.
It's depressing to leave an idea for dead. It's your baby and you love it, but it may just not be that idea's time, you may be able to come back to it at a later date with new eyes and find a way. Regardless, the journey of building something is of value to you - you can't help but learn from the experience and apply those lessons to the next endeavor.
Also, I'll state the obvious here...
Building a tool for the market and building a company to sell it are two very VERY different things.
The fact that you hit the wall when it came time to take your product to market might be an indicator for you. Maybe your are Woz and you just need to find your Steve.
If this try is a failure, continue to believe in yourself and never give up.
So many successful entrepreneurs are serial failures, until they aren't.
I find it interesting that Michael Bloomberg penned an oped this morning in which he warns against RFK JR's potential influence in govt, using RFK's stance against fluoride in our water as one of his attack points.
Yet here we have WAPO - another bastion of liberal thought media - taking what virtually amounts to an opposing stance to Bloomberg while providing tacit support for RFK.
looks like the billionaire media moguls aren't quite on the same page. They might want to check their jersey color to see if they are still on the same team.
The opinion article was written by a contributing columnist and is not necessarily the opinion of the newspaper.
Not all liberals are opposed to fluoride; it's one of those things where the public health establishment has an immune response to people who want to get rid of it, even though there seems to be plenty of data suggesting that water fluoridation does have some risks (mostly cosmetic) and is probably not as healthy/necessary as the establishment says.
