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Do you believe that Musk is not going to push his cars on Twitter? Seems to me that you have access to a fairly large audience on there.
by ratsmack 4y ago
Do you believe that Musk is not going to push his cars on Twitter? Seems to me that you have access to a fairly large audience on there.
- rtkwe 4y agoJust being tangentially related to the company isn't enough to justify it imo. You could also buy a lot of twitter ads for the cost of having devs come over.
- dr_dshiv 4y agoI guess that’s the concept of a CEO, to decide if it is justified. He will answer to the board and shareholders.
- rvba 4y agoDoesn't USA have the tax concept of "transfer pricing"? Musk (who is definitely the beneficial owner of Twitter and probably of Tesla too) is providing "free" consulting service of Tesla employees for Twitter -> without an invoice and without tax. (or maybe there will be an invoice?) In EU that should be taxed (and also invoiced) - with similar prices as a consulting provided by a consulting company that does code reviews. The tax office is interested most in the missing tax of course.
- powerapple 4y agoIs it confirmed that it is "free" consulting service? The article didn't mention anything about it.
- nerdawson 4y ago> Later, people inside the company reported that Tesla engineers were in fact reviewing the code. There’s very little here to make any kind of judgement from. Perhaps they were being paid for some private work outside of their employment. Maybe there’s some kind of arrangement in place to cover the costs of their time. From the outside we simply don’t know.
- bakuninsbart 4y agoQuite sure this is just false, as I've done this in some contexts before, would be great to hear from an eypert. - Consulting pro bono, even during hours on another company should generally be fine, it might just make it more likely to be tax audited.
- bawolff 4y agoI think the key point is whether the companies are at arms length or not, not that it is pro-bono.
- nly 4y agoDevs are salaried. If they're doing nothing else than the effective cost of contracting them out to Twitter is zero
- Jach 4y agoWhat do you mean by push? Tesla already doesn't run ads, this would be a strange way to start.
- ratsmack 4y agoAll he has to do is tweet something about Tesla... instant advertising.
- frosted-flakes 4y agoWell, he could already do that.
- blaser-waffle 4y agoHe tweeted all sorts of ridiculous nonsense, to include talking about Tesla, long before he bought twitter
- DeathArrow 4y ago>Tesla already doesn't run ads That is a great idea, running ads in Tesla cars. They can introduce a monthly subscription to opt out of the ads.
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