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The semi is quite interesting. The presentation was a bit underwhelming, Elon was very nervous and the stuttering wasn't something I expected. To me this shows
by frik 9y ago
The semi is quite interesting. The presentation was a bit underwhelming, Elon was very nervous and the stuttering wasn't something I expected. To me this shows how great Steve Jobs was salesman, when he did his presentations.
- colordrops 9y agoI guess you haven't seen many of his presentations. The stuttering in this one was on the low end in comparison.
- mrep 9y agoagreed. However, what elon is selling resonates with me well enough that his speech qualities don't matter to me and don't seem to matter to the crowd/most other people either.
- bobsil1 9y agoThat was good Elon. At the last Model 3 unveil he was much more nervous.
- njarboe 9y agoElon Musk decided that spending days or a week preparing for a presentation is not the best use of his time. At least that much time is generally what it takes to pull off a really smooth presentation. I heard that he does not script them and just does them off the top of his head. Tim Urban has a great essay about different levels of prep people do for talks [1] which he wrote when preparing to give a Ted talk. Musk's talks are on the "Wing it" side of prep while a Ted talk is suppose to be on the "Follow an exact script - Happy-Birthday-Level memorized" level. [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/doing-a-ted-talk-the-full-story.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/doing-a-ted-talk-the-full-sto...
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoConsidering Tesla is depending on it's image to get more money to fill the gap of it's ever deepening losses, spending days preparing a presentation is the best use of his time. Tesla has a price-to-sale ration of nearly 6, while Nissan and GM are <0.5. So Tesla is mostly image and vision, not reality. Therefore it depends on Musks presentations with visions of a glorious future.
- Memebook 9y agoHave you forgotten Job's reality disortion field? Sometimes you gotta get people to believe in a better reality :P
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoTesla obviously has to and always has. "[...] as long as 1) wealthy consumers in western nations but also China are eager to seek indulgence by way of green-washing and, 2) are in search of a Steve Jobs replacement persona onto which they can project their hopes for a gleaming future and, 3) are disillusioned with the establishment and its leaders, the company will likely succeed to raise cash again." https://seekingalpha.com/article/4122890-tesla-approaches-terminal-decline https://seekingalpha.com/article/4122890-tesla-approaches-te...
- njarboe 9y agoI don't think Elon Musk's plan is to build up Tesla as a huge pyramid scheme, cash out at the peak, and move to Mars before he gets arrested. He is running a couple of very technical companies and is down in the trenches working 80-100 hours weeks to keep them moving forward as fast as possible. Getting the Model 3 up to a production rate of 5,000 a week is what will start to prove out Tesla's current stock price, not a slick demo.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoI didn't want to imply that, it's more about staying afloat. "Getting the Model 3 up to a production rate of 5,000 a week is what will start to prove out Tesla's current stock price, not a slick demo." Yes, currently it looks like this is out of reach of Tesla.
- Dylan16807 9y ago> Tesla has a price-to-sale ration of nearly 6, while Nissan and GM are <0.5. So Tesla is mostly image and vision, not reality. The stock price is not the arbiter of whether a company is vision or reality. Nothing would change about those companies if public opinion suddenly shifted and made those ratios go the other way.