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This is definitely the move of a company in the process of scaling up production of their mass market vehicle that their valuation hinges on. Definitely not about managing cash flow.

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There's no need for sarcasm. Have confidence in yourself that you can speak plainly and the import of your comment will be undesrtand.

I appreciate the sarcasm, adds spice to the discussion. Nothing to do with confidence, that's just your attempt at putting the guy down.

Are you missing a "/s"? Or do you mean that they are preparing for another round of funding and want to improve their valuation?

It is the usual snark that dominates any discussion of Tesla. There's so much snark in these threads, it becomes hard to detect.

Yea, I just abandoned the thread altogether at this point. Might even be Tesla shills - don't know

Text-based speech has always had a hard time conveying emotion. No need to feel bad about not detecting sarcasm here, we're probably all oblivious to an extent.

Musk has already admitted in the email to the company that this was a cost-cutting decision:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1006597562156003328

I also think that this move was mandated by the board when it recently voted for him to remain chairman (maybe not the firing per se, but that Tesla becomes profitable ASAP).

The reply below in a feed from someone called Eleonmusk which I initially thought is Musk himself, offering bitcoins after registering in some scam event...lol

yes, me too.

The russian letter n and the twitter interface together make it a bad combination.

How many lines of business is Tesla in? What lines of business are these cuts concentrated in?

Lacking the above info, it could very well be the move of a company concentrating resources on a full-scale ramp effort and pruning back non-core or non-scaling lines of business.

Go, short the stock. You will make a killing.

Even if this was correct thesis you could still lose money on a solid trade idea.

Trading is not easy. Plenty of folks were correct on a 2007 market top ... they still managed to lose money ... because they were too early among other things.

...and empty talk is cheap.

Clearly the result of over performing fully roboticized factory.

If one of Musk's companies ever needs to train a deep learning sarcasm detector, these threads provide an excelent dataset.

We're here to contribute to human progress

this is how it starts...

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