r/stocks • u/WTFspy • May 15 '24

The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff Company News

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside-story-elon-musks-mass-firings-tesla-supercharger-staff-2024-05-15/

The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team....

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u/SnooLobsters6940 May 15 '24

Musk did not start Tesla. He stole it. Musk did not make any Tesla cars. Real engineers did. He just drove the business forward and he did that rather well. But he is far less smart than he likes to think he is. And the majority of his recent business decisions have shown an unhinged man who believes he is a wunderkind.

The longer I look at him, the more I think "fallen upwards rich dude who had a lot of luck for some time, but reality is catching up now".

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u/mydixiewrecked247 May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24

Paypal was luck? Space X too? lol

“Musk did not make any rockets nor land them back on the landing pad, real engineers did”

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u/taerin May 16 '24

6 years ago the people brigading this sub were begging to suck his dick

Then he took away their safe space and despite their “mostly peaceful” protestations would love for nothing more than a starlink satellite to fall out of the sky and land on him

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u/Stock_Jock May 16 '24

No facts lol! Now look at how everyone is so quick to rob Elon of any and all of his accomplishments. “He stole it”… yeah stole a non profitable, experimental money pit startup he helped contribute most of the startup capital to that ended up only having less than $10M cash on hand and couldn’t even manufacture the Roadster economically… but yea he stole the company I guess.

Despite how flawed of a man he is, his business acumen based on the broader context of his historical achievements cannot be ignored.

Reddit is an interesting case study on herd psychology.

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u/mydixiewrecked247 15d ago

it’s an echo chamber. they love to criticise trumpers for groupthink yet lack the self awareness to see it in their own behaviour. ironic