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But I was told that the Cybertruck would outsell the F-150!

I think Denver's status as a hub for IT, Telco, Aviation/Aerospace may skew things a bit, but the town is _lousy_ with Tesla products. Cybertruck included.

And I think this period of time is going to be underscored by the guilt of good products helmed by questionable people. Musk, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, all have either produced or led thousands of people to produce good things. And then they got rich enough to let their filter drop? I dunno how to exactly phrase it.

Model 3 and Y have composed of 95%+ of Tesla’s deliveries for at least a few years. No serious analysis would have concluded Cybertruck to be anything other than a rounding error.

Musk said they'd sell 250k-500k a year to shareholders. They're running at what - 10pct of that - so that seems like a fair comment.

I don’t see how anyone could put stock in anything Musk claims, he has a very long history of making bombastic claims.

> making bombastic claims

Also known as "lying".

He said it at shareholder meeting. You'd expect a higher level of probity when addressing the people who own your business? Unless he wasn't being straight with them?

I would not expect it from Musk, based on his previous behavior.

As he's an officer of a public company, isn't this kind of wildly inaccurate prediction covered by some kind of law?

For all practical purposes he's above the law.

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