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It's not "easy" (or common) because a lot of unusual things need to line up for it to work. You need an established company with big pockets, a new company that
by freerobby 8y ago
It's not "easy" (or common) because a lot of unusual things need to line up for it to work. You need an established company with big pockets, a new company that poses an existential threat but which also desperately needs cash, and a credible enough narrative that you can push to the financial markets, to get picked up by the business markets, and create a feedback loop.
The examples you gave don't fit the model. They are all profitable, they do not constitute an existential threat as Tesla does to big oil, and the relative differences in market cap is nowhere near as big between the parties. It's hard to overstate the proportions here -- the entire $12B of short interest in Tesla represents less than 2% of the Big Oil market cap. And that's without touching Aerospace/foreign governments that might want to starve SpaceX by way of Tesla.