Starlink is changing the world, airlines, cruises, rural areas and defeated Russian interference in Ukraine. They lost contracts in Canada due to short sited political motivations who were willing to waste 3 times as much tax payer funds because of it. Starlink is doing great.
Not seeing much substance there. They essentially skip of the drop in profit margin without discussing R&D costs, investments in Optimus, Robotaxi, Powerwall etc.
It's as if people think Tesla is just a car company.
In 2024 they made 10 billion just from their solar energy business.
Glad to see neuralink is working. Truly. Of all the projects he’s involved in that one and SpaceX are two I am actively rooting for and hope succeed.
Stock prices =/= their sales aren’t plummeting in Europe. You asked what questions we had, my question is “what is he going to do about their reputation in countries that care about his unhinged behavior as it’s clearly effecting their sales?” Also, we’re both on HN. We both know that stock price does not directly correlate with the health of a business.
Starlink was withheld from Ukraine early in the war at an incredibly critical time in case you forgot - he literally dictated where they could and couldn’t use the service (denied access in Crimea for drone operations). Should musk be unilaterally deciding the fate of Ukraine’s military operations, without warning at that? I hope we both agree the answer is “no.” And whether it’s short sighted or not the contracts Starlink lost were to the tune of 9 figures. You blame “short sighted” political motivations, I blame a ketamine-addled fickle billionaire who can’t keep his impulses in check. He consistently acts like a petulant, drunk child. We’ve seen it over and over again.
You ignored half the companies/projects I mentioned.
> You blame “short sighted” political motivations, I blame a ketamine-addled fickle billionaire who can’t keep his impulses in check. He consistently acts like a petulant, drunk child. We’ve seen it over and over again.
When people are willing to waste taxpayer funds to go with a solution 3x more expensive, it's absolutely a short sighted political motivation. Nobody who actually answers to their constituents could waste money to that degree.
He unilaterally withheld starlink from Ukraine when he didn’t like the way they were fighting a war for their survival. Why would a government trust an unstable billionaire who does that?
I checked on this and it’s not as cut and dry as you make it out to be.
> That said, there was later controversy in 2023 reports about a 2022 incident where Musk refused to extend or activate Starlink coverage over Russian-occupied Crimea to prevent its use in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea fleet, citing concerns over escalating the war. Musk has stated this was to avoid complicity in a “major act of war,” and clarified that coverage wasn’t active in that area to begin with, so he declined Ukraine’s request to enable it.
It’s exactly as cut and dry as I am making it out to be. He had total control of the situation and the ability to decide what would happen, which he exercised.
Yes. It's good to know that he didn't fall victim to the Stanford prison experiment.
In that situation, there's very little difference from asking him to pull the trigger himself. You might not like the decision, but you have to acknowledge that it's not an easy one.
> In that situation, there's very little difference from asking him to pull the trigger himself. You might not like the decision, but you have to acknowledge that it's not an easy one.
That’s not really my issue though - I’m saying “who wants to trust Elon musk’s finger on a trigger, let alone such an important one?”
I think we can all agree that he has a pretty “unpredictable” way of operating. If he holds those keys, whether or not it is a “difficult decision,” that could make a government rightfully nervous. His politics and erratic behavior are a serious problem. It’s not just a polite ideological disagreement that doesn’t impact his actions/how he runs his companies. Quite the opposite.
SpaceX accounts for over 90% of global space launch payloads.
Neuralink…this is from Oct 10th.
https://x.com/neuralink/status/1976803020190236915?s=46
Starlink is changing the world, airlines, cruises, rural areas and defeated Russian interference in Ukraine. They lost contracts in Canada due to short sited political motivations who were willing to waste 3 times as much tax payer funds because of it. Starlink is doing great.