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Tesla is absolutely not a software company, it's a tech company. Software is a very concrete term which doesn't describe the category of companies we reasonably
by Traster 7y ago
Tesla is absolutely not a software company, it's a tech company. Software is a very concrete term which doesn't describe the category of companies we reasonably want to talk about.
- manderley 7y agoI consider them to be a "car company", a company that makes and sells cars. Even though technology is involved in producing said cars.
- wongarsu 7y agoHow are they a Tech company? Is every car company with in-house developed self driving a tech company? Does that mean eventually most car companies will be tech companies and the term car company will fall out of use?
- Spooky23 7y agoTesla is defined by its technology. Most importantly, it’s valued based on its technology.
- manderley 7y agoI'd assume that's true of pretty much any car company.
- navigatesol 7y ago>Most importantly, it’s valued based on its technology. And other car companies are not? The modern internal combustion engine is a technological marvel, and getting better every year.
- Spooky23 7y agoNo. They are mature companies with conservative valuations. Tesla has a bigger market cap than Ford, isn’t profitable and is always one deal alway from insolvency. The value is it’s tech and potential.
- ian0 7y agoWe don't call toy companies "Plastic Companies", even though plastics dominate the manufacturing process and wooden toy makers were disrupted by the introduction of plastic. Ditto with cars. Telsa is not a tech company. It's a car manufacturer.
- einpoklum 7y agoTesla is a car company.
- msla 7y agoApple is a computer company. (Phones are specialized computers unless you're actually talking about landline things.) Intel is a chip company. Microsoft is a software company... except there's Microsoft hardware out there, isn't there? Do you think there might be a use for an over-arching term to talk about all of those companies at the same time, while leaving out, say, Unilever and Coca-Cola?
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- chrisseaton 7y agoWhat do you think is the difference between those two groups of companies? How does Unilever make products if not through researching and applying technology?
- pwinnski 7y agoTesla sells cars. Apple sells computer hardware and software. Intel sells computer parts. Microsoft sells computer software, hardware, and services. Coca-Cola sells soda. Unilever sells a little bit of nearly everything. Numbers 2-4 are clearly tech companies, while Tesla, Coca-Cola, and Unilever clearly are not, no matter how much technology they use in delivering their cars, soda, and household goods.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI don't get the difference. I think you think 'technology' means 'computer'. Detergents are also a technology.
- pwinnski 7y ago