7 ms·

I am loving this. Let the stock crash hard, so I can buy more of it. The man built an org that lands reusable rockets on a portable barge. My suspicion is that

• Gibbon1 9y ago
  About 15 years ago I was supporting an IC used in a consumer product. Our first big customer designed it in and from Feb through middle of August we fielded a constant stream of questions, spent a countless hours tracking down and solving obscure bugs in the silicon. And then in the middle of august all the calls just stopped and in the middle of Sept we got the news that they were punting to Q1. Six month delay because they didn't feel comfortable handing over the pre-production units to the buyers. Okay so that was a scuddy consumer product that sold for $150 retail. But at 1M units a year. Tesla's trying to go full production with a product that is 100 times more complicated. But at 100k/year. The other funny bit is no one bats an eye when a traditional automaker delays a new model for a year or two. You see a press release in 2013 about the brand new 2015 model. And 2015 rolls around and it's now delayed till 2016, then 2017. Anyone want to guess why that happens? Oh yeah.