WSJ: How Volkswagen’s $50 Billion Plan to Beat Tesla Short-Circuited

Oh boy. With a headline like that, you know the story’s gotta be good: ZWICKAU, Germany—Five years and nearly $50 billion into the auto industry’s biggest bet on electric vehicles, Volkswagen VOW 2.05% CEO Herbert Diess and his guest, Chancellor Angela Merkel, stood in anticipation as the first ID.3, Germany’s long-awaited answer to Tesla, rolled off the assembly line. […]

TSLA-Qanon Short Sellers Scream of Impending Disaster for Tesla in Europe

Others are beginning to notice this as well. $TSLA is now well behind the OEM ICE “dinosaurs” in the largest global EV market. This isn’t supposed to be happening. https://t.co/BphM2HUjk4 — Diogenes (@WallStCynic) January 15, 2021 TSLA-Qanon short sellers, including the famed bear Jim Chanos, have warned that Tesla is at risk of falling behind […]

FSD Commerce

I sent this message to the Autopilot team today, via the bug reporting e-mail for FSD beta: I see a time in the near future where FSD facilitates many of the transactions a consumer makes every day, such as shopping or buying food. Tesla should build software for mobile devices as well as the in […]

Chapter 7: Who is Aaron Greenspan?

If you can, please donate to the legal fund via GoFundMe or PayPal. Previous Chapter: Meet Aaron Jacob Greenspan Table of Contents This chapter is so long it needs its own table of contents. Come back to it if you can’t read the whole thing at once, or just skim through. Greenspan Meets Streisand Shaker […]

Dan Rose Shares the Story Behind AWS

Check out this Twitter thread: I was at Amzn in 2000 when the internet bubble popped. Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr. Our biggest expense was datacenter -> expensive Sun servers. We spent a year ripping out Sun & replacing with HP/Linux, which formed the foundation for AWS. The backstory: — Dan […]