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If it were possible to short Udacity, I'd be putting all my money into a short position. This is obviously so far outside of Udacity's core wheelhouse that I h
by morgante 10y ago
If it were possible to short Udacity, I'd be putting all my money into a short position.
This is obviously so far outside of Udacity's core wheelhouse that I have to assume it's simply an ego project for the founder. Unfortunately, before you start pursuing unrelated ego projects, your company should have several billion in cash in the bank.
I cannot possibly see how this ends up working out well for Udacity. Developing self-driving cars is very expensive and not their core expertise at all.
- empath75 10y agoI think it's mostly meant as a class project, and that seems like something in their wheelhouse.
- carleverett 10y agoAlso seems very smart of them to have partners like Mercedes. They're likely offsetting a huge portion of the cost for the program, and it's all from taking advantage of the climate where everyone is dying to get a head start in self-driving.
- gremlinsinc 10y agoalso Thun has a history in robotics/ai/machine learning so it is in his wheelhouse. Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Space travel were well outside Paypal's expertise, but one of it's co-founders went on to revolutionize all three of those industries... and many people called him crazy for even considering to launch his own rockets into space.