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Wow, I just visited https://twitter.com/elonmusk https://twitter.com/elonmusk and... "Tesla stock price is too high imo" is one of the tamer tweets. > I am se

Wow, I just visited https://twitter.com/elonmusk https://twitter.com/elonmusk and... "Tesla stock price is too high imo" is one of the tamer tweets. > I am selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house. > Now give people back their FREEDOM > Rage, rage against the dying of the light of consciousness (OK, the last one is apparently a quote from a poem, still...) Sound more like tweets of a Hollywood celebrity who had one too many glasses of martini...

dogma1138 7y ago
He is more like a rogue chat bot that was trained on 4chan at this point.
jariel 7y ago
Clearly he's having a lot of fun and saying wierd things - which is fine. But the Tesla statement is way crazier than the rest because it's a material statement about the potential future earnings of the company. Musk is a 'deep insider' who knows 'everything' about the company. When he says 'the stock is overvalued' - what does that really mean? Did Tesla just lose a huge market? Was there a big accident we don't know about? Is there some huge hidden liability? Are sales forecasts way down? Did a deal fall through? Are they getting sued? He's the CEO so those statements really matter. I think we can give him a lot of leeway and expect that he say some funny things. But when people give him billions of dollars ... he can't mess around with that, it's irresponsible. Especially since he's already in trouble with the SEC. It eats away at his credibility.
- sneak 7y ago
  > But the Tesla statement is way crazier than the rest because it's a material statement about the potential future earnings of the company. The tweet does not say anything material about earnings past, present, or future. Your statement is a false one.
  - jariel 7y ago
    Valuation is a function of future earnings. Saying something about the 'stock price' is 100% saying something about the financial situation of the company.
henryfjordan 7y ago
> Rage, rage against the dying of the light of consciousness That's an amended quote from a poem: https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night Fun Fact: the poem was featured heavily in the movie Interstellar.

dogma1138 7y ago

He is more like a rogue chat bot that was trained on 4chan at this point.

jariel 7y ago

Clearly he's having a lot of fun and saying wierd things - which is fine. But the Tesla statement is way crazier than the rest because it's a material statement about the potential future earnings of the company. Musk is a 'deep insider' who knows 'everything' about the company. When he says 'the stock is overvalued' - what does that really mean? Did Tesla just lose a huge market? Was there a big accident we don't know about? Is there some huge hidden liability? Are sales forecasts way down? Did a deal fall through? Are they getting sued? He's the CEO so those statements really matter. I think we can give him a lot of leeway and expect that he say some funny things. But when people give him billions of dollars ... he can't mess around with that, it's irresponsible. Especially since he's already in trouble with the SEC. It eats away at his credibility.

sneak 7y ago
> But the Tesla statement is way crazier than the rest because it's a material statement about the potential future earnings of the company. The tweet does not say anything material about earnings past, present, or future. Your statement is a false one.
- jariel 7y ago
  Valuation is a function of future earnings. Saying something about the 'stock price' is 100% saying something about the financial situation of the company.

henryfjordan 7y ago

> Rage, rage against the dying of the light of consciousness That's an amended quote from a poem: https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night Fun Fact: the poem was featured heavily in the movie Interstellar.