The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 60 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 3 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Zwillinger: Allbirds aspires to Tesla's strategy of product performance over sustainability
“I'd say a company that, that is done a really nice job in an area that I take a lot of inspiration from, would probably be Tesla. Which is around performance and quality of a product and an aesthetic and a beauty that delivers in and of itself. And the free gi…”
Tesla's product strategy is phenomenal and tied to its financing
“I would say what Tesla has pulled off is nothing short of amazing. Amazing on every level. Just phenomenal. And their product strategy has been a very visible product strategy. They kind of had to because it tied in so closely with the financing strategy.”
Singlehurst: Baillie Gifford began researching and buying Tesla stock in 2012
“I was working on Tesla in 2000 and 12, and we went on to buy that for various strategies.”
Ralston: Tesla was $445M in debt during SpaceX's early launch failures
“I remember hearing Elon Musk talk about what it was like for him when Tesla was something like four hundred and forty five million dollars in debt. And the first three launches of SpaceX had blown up”
Quintini: Winning frontier tech companies build end-to-end products with empathetic design
“What I see happening in Frontier now is a humanization of technology, right? Companies are building end-to-end solutions. Even if you're, you know, if you think about the big successes in Frontier, like a Tesla, Nest, Invest an Oculus or Cruz. They're going al…”
Basu Trivedi: Tesla's 2016 Autopilot team had just 30 people
“So, so an example of this is, you know, Tesla has a 30 person team working on autopilot, which is their Autonomous sort of cruise control and lane changing and lane keeping software and application that's live today in in Model S's and Model X's. So they have,…”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep will introduce both higher-end and mass-market models like Tesla
“We want to democratize sleep, so the way I always say is, imagine if we were Tesla, we are the Model S. There will be the roadster, so there will be something even better, but you will also see us coming out with the model X and Y and three.”
Randle: I lost all my college savings shorting Tesla
“With all of my college savings, I shorted Tesla. And I feel like everyone has gone through this experience. If they were a value investor at some point in their life where it was like, you know, you just, oh my God, Tesla, maybe it's not a fraud, but it's so o…”
Cliff Weitzman: Invested one-third of his money into Tesla in 2015
“Now my undergrad was renewable energy engineering. I put one third of my money into Tesla in 20, 25, sorry, 2015.”
Calacanis: Google almost bailed out Tesla when it faced bankruptcy
“Google almost bailed out Tesla at the last hour when it almost went bankrupt.”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep models product evolution and experience on Tesla
“One is Tesla, and the reason why is because of how obsessed they are with the customer experience, right? They are minimal, they are simple, they, the product evolves with software, and so we use Tesla a lot as an example at Eight Sleep”