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PR dept dissolved just ahead of the "no questions" return policy. No questions, no problem.

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They have a de facto PR department. Go ask Elon on Twitter. You may or may not get an answer.

For reference[0].

0: https://electrek.co/2020/10/06/tesla-dissolves-pr-department... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24697610 )

Elon's twitter is effectively the PR department now:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1317008759286243329?s=20

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1316837174457896961?s=20

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1316513925878480896?s=20

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1316454693489516545?s=20

This might be the thing that sinks Tesla. The man is a lunatic. If I were on the board of Tesla, I’d want him the hell off Twitter entirely.

There's a saying, I'm not sure as to the origin, 'If it looks crazy and it works, it's not crazy'.

Not sure whether you'd disagree in this instance, but if so I'd sure like to know why.

And how many years was Madoff a successful investor returning great ROI if you gave him your money?

Madoff and Musk are not even in the same bracket. Musk is an actual entrepreneur (albeit one that should learn when to keep his trap shut), Madoff is simply a con artist.

Ah yes, the old "Those aren't real cars and the rockets aren't actually landing".

Sure, you'll look like an absolute genius if you turn out to be right.

Every business wishes they had a lunatic half as talented as him.

It's possible. It could be random corporate restructuring too, since they now have an "External Relations" department.

https://www.prdaily.com/what-teslas-move-to-eliminate-its-pr...

My employer loves to move people around while creating and dissolving groups. I've had a few title/group changes where literally nothing about what I did changed.

I suspect they do that because it allows them to couch terminations as layoffs. Just move everyone you want gone into a new group and lay off that group. It's not personal when the whole group is being downsized.

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