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> Investors need to know.

Really? That's nonsense. This sentiment is a great example of what's so toxic about the public markets now. Everyone is complaining that so much value creation is happening in private companies going public later - a big reason is because of this idea that investors should care about when one person at a 36,000 person company goes on vacation and that this should move the stock price. Ridiculous. It's distracting noise.

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I agree. There's gotta be a limit to how short-term-oriented/short-sighted investors can be. What's next? "Stock plunges when CEO goes to the bathroom"?

"Stock plunges when CEO gets testy on earnings call" -- that was last week's headline.

This is a company when dozens of senior leadership have left the company. So yes, confirming he's just "on vacation" is relevant as the assumption could be he left too.

Btw - I don't believe he is "on vacation". It's something else, but probably doesn't matter in the end.

To add to this, I think it would be a worse sign for the company if they have a number of people in such a critical path, that they can never take significant time off. If you're doing your job well as a leader (and an organization), you have people who can fill in for you.

Don’t want to deal with it? Don’t go public. Zero sympathy. You take the public’s money, you owe them your word.

Maybe if you had hundreds of thousands invested in TSLA and were concerned about their downward spiral you’d think different.

What have they taken that wasn’t offered?

If I had hundreds of thousands of dollars in TSLA it would mean that I had tens of millions elsewhere. But then, my parents are both actuaries and even my groceries are hedged.

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