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This is not a caring [or] uncaring situation. It’s like, if the whole ship sinks, then nobody’s got a job.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The code base is like a Rube Goldberg machine, and when you zoom in on one part of the Rube Goldberg machine, there’s another Rube Goldberg machine, and then there’s another one.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The advertising relevance is the most gigantic thing, and this is going to sound totally bizarre, but Twitter did not consider relevance in advertising until three months ago.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Going forward, Twitter will have very relevant, useful advertising, and because it is useful, because it is relevant, there will be a massive increase in revenue, because it is now useful. So I’m very optimistic about the future. It’s been a very difficult four months, but I’m optimistic about the future.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The code base is like a Rube Goldberg machine, and when you zoom in on one part of the Rube Goldberg machine, there’s another Rube Goldberg machine, and then there’s another one, so it’s quite difficult to keep this thing running, and then also difficult to advance the product because it is really overly complex, to say the least.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
What I’d say to advertisers and brands is, you know, use Twitter yourself and believe what you see on Twitter, not what you read in the newspapers, because what you see on Twitter is the real thing, and what you read in newspapers is not.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’ll make a change, what appears to be a small change somewhere, that then causes a massive disruption.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Which is totally ok and it happens all the time … They usually tell people about it but that’s seemingly the optional part at Twitter now, next up though is finding out if Twitter will pay me what they owe me per my contract.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We do have a very talented team here. So I think Tesla would continue to do very well even if I was kidnapped by aliens or went back to my home planet.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re getting quite good at auto labeling, the trainers train the training system and then the system auto labels the data and then the human laborers just need to look at the labeling to confirm that it is correct and perhaps make edits.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The impacted employees were identified on February 3, 2023, which was well before the union campaign was announced, we became aware of organizing activities approximately 10 days later. We learned in hindsight that one out of the 27 impacted employees [was] officially identified as part of the union campaign. This exercise pre-dated any union campaign.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Probably towards the end of this year would be good timing to find someone else to run the company.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The causal relationship is clearly not there simply because of a tweet.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think there is going to be some macro drama that’s higher than people currently think.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: ‘We do not shadow ban.’ They added: ‘And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology,’.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We’re just gonna put all the information out there try to get a clean slate we will be iteratively better and it will force other media companies to also be more truthful or else they’ll lose their readership.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically – overwhelmingly. Like, I'm not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear. Now this election, I will.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The community notes feature is awesome. Our goal is to make Twitter the most accurate source of information on Earth, without regard to political affiliation.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But in spite of all these challenges, it was one of the strongest quarters in our history.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump, I think Digital World Acquisition Corp. was a mistake, i would reverse the perma-ban. ... We should not have perma-bans.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Without the auto labeling I think we would not be able to solve the self-driving problem.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Tesla is reducing the salaried workforce roughly 10 % over the next probably three months or so. it's quite clear we expect to grow our hourly workforce. We grew very fast on the salaried side and we grew a little too fast in some areas, and so it requires a reduction in salaried work force.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think a recession is inevitable at some point. As to whether there is a recession in the near term, I think that is more likely than not.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think that trust is extremely important and just for the usefulness of the system, getting rid of troll farms and bots and spammers is incredibly important.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump, I think that was a mistake, i would reverse the perma-ban... But my opinion, and [ Twitter founder ] Jack Dorsey, I want to be clear, shares this opinion, is that we should not have perma-bans.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
By' free speech,' I simply mean that which matches the law, i am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I kind of doubt that'll happen this time, but we should have an open mind and never underestimate Elon.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If in doubt, let the speech exist, if it's a gray area, I would say, let the tweet exist. But obviously in the case where there's perhaps a lot of controversy, you would not necessarily want to promote that tweet.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Everyone will still blame me for everything, if I acquire Twitter and something goes wrong, it's my fault 100 %. I think there will be quite a few errors.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is not a way to make money, my strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The code should be on Github so people can look through it and say,' I see a problem here,'' I don't agree with this,' they can highlight issues, suggest changes.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy, however, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Price should probably be ~$2/month, but paid 12 months up front account doesn’t get checkmark for 60 days (watch for credit card chargebacks) suspended with no refund if used for scam/spam, and no ads.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Tesla CEO will make sure that this is a gemstone for the area, for Germany, for Europe and for the world, you should have hope in the future. This [ climate ] problem will be solved and this factory is a major step in that direction. So believe in the future.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If the government had the mandate of the people, there would be a significant counter-protest. There is not, therefore they do not.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If we can't find a use for it then we shouldn't expect that others would.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I keep forgetting that you’re still alive, want me to sell more stock, Bernie? Just say the word.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would call it,' forcibly imprisoning people in their homes' against all their Constitutional rights, in my opinion, and breaking people's freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why people came to America or built this country, it's an outrage.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is a picture perfect mission. It went as well as one can possibly expect.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
No, just like [ Unsworth ] didn't clarify he wanted to sodomize me with a submarine. I didn't think it required clarification, i think that would have been worse. If you called someone a motherf' er I don't think you would have to clarify you don't actually commit incest. It would sound disingenuous.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm not sure to the degree I'm influential. I try to get people to take climate change seriously and that hasn't worked, among those people who believe in climate change I think I have influence.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
You know, I actually don't know if a lot of people will buy this pickup truck or not, but I don't care, if there's only a small number of people that like that truck, I guess we'll make a more conventional truck in the future.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Trucks have been the same for a very long time, like 100 years, we need something different.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Everyone knows German engineering is outstanding for sure. You know that is part of the reason why we are locating Gigafactory Europe in Germany.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is basically the holy grail of space, the critical breakthrough that's needed for us to become a space-faring civilization is to make space travel like air travel.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think the actual danger to the Boca Chica village is low but it's not tiny, so probably over time it'd be better to buy out the villages, and we've made an offer to that effect.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The critical breakthrough that's needed for us to become a space-faring civilization is to make space travel like air travel.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
In almost any motor transport — whether it's a plane or car, a horse, or bicycle — it's reusable, if you could use a car only once, very few people could afford to drive a car. So the critical breakthrough that's necessary is a rapidly reusable orbital rocket.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If you're going to stick something in a brain, you want it not to be large.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The failure of the titanium component in a high-pressure NTO environment was sufficient to cause ignition of the check valve and led to an explosion.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Having to not pay tariffs and have the really long delivery chain and high transport costs will make the cars a lot more affordable to people in Europe and China.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We'll do whatever we have to, to ensure that we can scale at the fastest rate possible.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We're not promoting the [ Model 3 ], if you go to our stores, we don't even want to talk about it, really, because we want to talk about the thing that we can supply. If somebody orders a Model 3 now, it's probably late next-year before they get it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Twelve months from now we will have made about 1 million vehicles.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
2018 felt like aging five years in one, honestly it was really intense.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It will be able to do basically anything by the end of this year, just with software upgrades.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
And I'm willing to do that because Tesla will be the next Amazon, Google of this decade.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Model Y, being an SUV, is about 10 percent bigger than Model 3, so will cost about 10 percent more & have slightly less range for same battery.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We would think it is safe for somebody to essentially fall asleep and wake up at their destination ? Probably towards the end of next year, that is when I think it would most likely be safe enough for that.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's very important to get those cars, especially to China, as soon as possible. We hope the trade negotiations go well , but it's not clear. But we need to get them there while there's sort of a de facto - sort of a truce on the tariff war.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Bottom line is we need the Shanghai factory to achieve that 10,000 rate and have the cars be affordable, the demand for Model 3 is insanely high. The inhibitor is affordability.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We have to be relentless about costs in order to make affordable cars and not go bankrupt.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Cell production will be sourced locally, most likely from several companies (incl Pana), in order to meet demand in a timely manner.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I want to make sure that you know all the facts and figures and understand that the road ahead is very difficult, there isn't any other way.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This quarter, as with Q3, shipment of higher priced Model 3 variants (this time to Europe and Asia) will hopefully allow us, with great difficulty, effort and some luck, to target a tiny profit.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We're obviously at the early stages here. This is a prototype. We're figuring things out, i think there is a path to alleviating traffic congestion in cities.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The only tweets that would have to be... reviewed would be if a tweet had a probability of causing a movement in the stock, otherwise, it's — hello, First Amendment.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's not realistic in the sense that I am the largest shareholder in the company, i can just call for a shareholder vote and get anything done that I want.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
But the system would have failed if I was truly erratic, there's been relentless criticism, relentless and outrageous and unfair... What actually happened here was an incredible American success story.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The whole point of Tesla is to accelerate the advent of electric vehicles and sustainable transport, we're trying to help the environment, we think it's the most serious problem that humanity faces.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It was life or death, those betting against the company were right by all conventional standards that we would fail. But they just did not count on this unconventional situation of creating an assembly line in a parking lot in a tent.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We certainly could raise money, but I think we don't need to, and I think it is better discipline not to.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If somebody comes and makes a better electric car than Tesla, and it's so much better than ours that we can't sell our cars and we go bankrupt, I still think that's a good thing for the world.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I just did it because if I didn't do it, then [ there was a ] good chance Tesla would die.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I tweet interesting things pretty much as they come to me, and probably with not much of a filter.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I tweet interesting things pretty much as they come to me, and probably with not much of a filter, i spend a lot less time on Twitter than people probably think. It's like maybe 10-15 minutes [ a day ].
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I have a lot on my plate, an electric plane isn't important right now.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
These things are much more important than creating electric supersonic VTOL.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Hopefully useful, if not, perhaps it will be in a future situation.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The CR braking result is inconsistent with other reviewers, but might indicate that some Model 3s have longer braking distances than others, if so, we will address this at our expense. May just be a question of firmware tuning, in which case can be solved by an OTA software update.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Super huge thanks to everyone that helped with this project, as mentioned in prior posts, once fully operational (demo system rides will be free), the system will always give priority to pods for pedestrians & cyclists for less than the cost of a bus ticket.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Over time, I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence, it’s mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It would be better if we mitigated the effects of global warming and had cleaner air in our cities and were n’t drilling for vast amounts of coal, oil and gas in parts of the world that are problematic and will run out anyway, and if we were a multiplanetary species, that would reduce the possibility of some single event, man-made or natural, taking out civilisation as we know it, as it did the dinosaurs.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Production grows exponentially, so Aug should be 100 cars and Sept above 1,500, looks like we can reach 20,000 Model 3 cars per month in Dec.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
( Model 3) Production grows exponentially, so Aug should be 100 cars and Sept above 1,500, looks like we can reach 20,000 Model 3 cars per month in Dec.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
( Model 3) Production grows exponentially, so Aug should be 100 cars and Sept above 1500, looks like we can reach 20,000 Model 3 cars per month in Dec.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We can't do this well if Tesla and SolarCity are different companies, which is why we need to combine and break down the barriers inherent to being separate companies.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Has this idea been bandied about with our larger shareholders, institutional shareholders? Yes, there have been discussions and I think some of them see it as a natural thing to do.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If there’s ever sort of an apocalyptic scenario, of some kind, hypothetically, you just press the bioweapon defense mode button, this is a real button.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I have zero doubt about the deal, should have done it sooner.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The rocket landed instead of putting a hole in the ship or tipping over, we're real excited about that.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That will be quite exciting, in terms of the first flight to Mars, we are hoping to do that around 2025.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Mars is the next natural step. In fact, it’s the only planet we have a shot at establishing a self-sustaining city on, once we do establish such a city, there will be strong forcing function for the improvement of space flight technology that will then enable us to establish colonies elsewhere in the solar system and ultimately extend beyond our solar system.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I don’t think it’s that hard honestly, just float around, it’s not that hard to float around.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
That has a lot of potential, you would never forget anything. You wouldn’t need to take photographs.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You would never forget anything. You wouldn’t need to take photographs.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
At least the pieces were bigger this time, am optimistic about upcoming ship landing.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If there’s ever sort of an apocalyptic scenario of some kind, hypothetically, you just press the Bioweapon Defense Mode Button.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The first time I took a week off, the Orbital Sciences rocket exploded and Richard Branson’s rocket exploded, in that same week, the second time I took a week off, my rocket exploded. The lesson here is don’t take a week off.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I’m glad to see these announcements of these other companies, i hope they move even faster than they announce.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The reason that we’re doing Tesla is to try accelerate the advent of sustainable transport, to have their be more electric cars on the road.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Each one of these failure modes has been quite different, it just goes to show — rockets are a fundamentally difficult thing.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
That is probably the saddest thing about this, is that, if there was just a bit of different software, Dragon would have made it.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Falcon 9 experienced a problem shortly before first stage shutdown. Will provide more info as soon as we review the data.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The daily cycler is more about the economics or getting off the grid completely whereas the backup UPS is just there to show that your house has power if there is ever a power outage, in the U.S. the daily cycling application is going to be very limited.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This is an important step toward bringing competition to National Security Space launch, we thank the Air Force for its confidence in us and look forward to serving it well.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that … we are summoning the demon.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We really designed the Model S to be a very sophisticated computer on wheels, a huge part of what Tesla is, is a Silicon Valley software company. We view this the same as updating your phone or your laptop.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
A huge part of what Tesla is, is a Silicon Valley software company. We view this the same as updating your phone or your laptop.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Tesla press conf at 9am on Thurs. About to end range anxiety ... via OTA software update. Affects entire Model S fleet, range anxiety.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There's no quid pro quo here, we're not asking for any money from the state.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Before considering taking on franchised dealers, we also have to establish (more of) our own stores.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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