GreenPlastic

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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
We called Tesla roadside because other tire shops were closed and I didn't want to put the spare on myself. They offered to just tow it to the SC and have it fixed on them.
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
Owned BMWs and Infinitis before and Tesla Service is way better.
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
There are other stories like this on Tesla Motors Club and Tesla service always goes above and beyond to get it right. The service guys gave me their card when I picked my car up. When I have an issue, I send them an email and get me schedu
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
Had a chance to buy some SpaceX stock and passed because I didn't see a path to liquidity with the large capital requirements to get to Mars. Not for everyone, but satellite internet is the ultimate power law play and SpaceX is in a gr
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
I knew a real estate investor who was really successful who's motto was the best investments are those in the worst areas that most people wouldn't touch. Large trailer parks with high vacancy rates, run down neighborhoods, etc. W
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
1. Canadian salaries are a joke. Senior software engineers make 85k in Vancouver and housing is as expensive as SF. 2. Canadians think their health care system is pretty good because they haven't experienced a good private system. My
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
Why does everyone assume they need growth? I'd be plenty happy to have a company with a 2B revenue stream, call options on other assets in Fabric and Periscope and there's like 0 secular decline.
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
And 2B in revenue - it's worth it for some private equity firm to come in, pay more than 10B, fire everyone except an essential staff and milk the revenue stream.
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
Seems like all they'd have to do is add value to advertisers using the existing ad-word engine. The plan is always the same for any internet holding - build up user base, then invest heavily in the advertising engine to add value for t
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
My guess is they have an LOI (probably from SFDC), probably at a pretty significant valuation, and the board did what they should have and decided to shop it (they may have leaked on purpose to start a bidding war). The other suitors came t
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
I don't think that the only path forward is an M&A since they have plenty of cash, good revenue, and a reasonable product strategy. Doesn't mean, like any startup with way less traction, they wouldn't consider one at the
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
Or capital is cheap and it doesn't hurt to raise it while you can.
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
If I remember correctly, it was a lockout shortened season with multiple back to back to backs, Thibs had a habit of playing his players too many minutes, and Rose was gimpy going in. The real reason our model really liked Philly because th
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
Philadelphia 76ers to beat the Chicago Bulls a few years ago in the NBA playoffs. Payout was something like 11-1 and our model had implied probability at something like 45% for Philadelphia. Made like 50k.
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by GreenPlastic 10y ago
and CapEx
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
Or it says a lot about the experience of driving a Tesla compared to a gas car.
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
Am I the only one who dreads going to the gas station and runs the car down to the absolute empty point before getting gas? I really don't ever want to go to a gas station again and would rarely use the supercharger network.
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
I'm preaching to the choir, but the problem with other manufacturers, and why I would never consider a Bolt, is it's got a 0-60 time over 5.5 and it looks like crap. To me, it's a 3 series with a way better user experience.
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
I live in a high-end condo (not in the Bay area), and in a building of 400 units there are 5 Teslas on the first 3 floors of parking (8 floors total). Not to mention, everyone I know with a Tesla is only considering Tesla for their next car
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
I don't have any hard evidence to back this up (mostly anecdotal), but I think the demand for a Model 3 is much, much larger than people think. Estimating demand based on current luxury car demand is probably not accurate. It's pr
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
ULA is already dead in the water. The only reason why they're around is because of the monopoly they have with US military launches.
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
See above. Mostly because I thought that listing cash comp was inconsistent with how the company markets itself to employees and the company's culture, which tends to be more on the humble side. I did have some information about the wo
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
Leaned on the company's official materials for this. Employee focused culture where we work hard and play hard. XX on best companies to work for list. Fast growing company with great benefits, dogs allowed at work, etc.
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
Fair enough, but the information is publicly available on glassdoor. A couple reasons why I didn't list comp: 1. I didn't want to get candidates purely motivated by the high cash comp in the area. 2. Cash comp isn't core to h
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
Wasn't meant as an insult. Just have a lot of phone screens where people list 100 technologies on a resume and don't have a rudimentary understanding of any. The majority of candidates have never used source control or haven'
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
Can't post the exact description but the jist of it was: Strong understanding of objective C and iOS SDK Swift experience a plus Passion for design / UX Proven track record of quality apps in app store That's literally all I
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
Posted a senior iOS dev position to Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor where the company is paying 25%(maybe 40% if you include RSUs) above market here (although we don't put comp in the job listing) and only got 3 applicants in a month.
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by GreenPlastic 11y ago
In my experience, a lot of new grads don't know how little they actually know and expect the degree itself to qualify them for the job.
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by GreenPlastic 12y ago
While I agree, for the most part, that future growth is risk adjusted and priced in, I also believe that the market doesn't quite understand all the nuances. One, Tesla's margins are actually significantly than GMs. Two, they&#x27
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by GreenPlastic 12y ago
I think an Apple Tesla partnership is more likely than Apple directly competing with or buying Tesla. Sometime last year, Musk spent some time at Apple, Tesla has the patents and Apple seems like the right company to license the technology.

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