DenverR

You can look at historical percentile by year and score though.

it's written to provoke thought and reflection.

the title does the reflection on behalf of the reader which is a disservice.

The actual takeaway question is "is Elon Musk on a frontier of his own — or is the market extrapolating one proven outlier onto an unproven one?"

The HN title editorializes its own answer to the author's question.

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real Free Laptops has never been tried.

Congratulations you’ve just described central planning.

So “society” should be able to veto a sale, but when payroll is due the owners are on the hook?

How was Figma able to generate any value operating in Adobe’s powerful monopoly?

Love the FTC getting to decide if you’re permitted to sell your startup or forced to deliver more shareholder value.

Came here to comment the same. One of my favorite reads of the year.

Clearly a rorschach for people. The cars were driving autonomously and the improvements in Optimus’ form factor were impressive, so to me it seems pedantic to complain that the bar tending and rock paper scissors weren’t 100% autonomous.

Are you a Trevor Milton fan? I didn’t see as much merit in his body of work.

I’m not sure why everyone is positioning this as a “gotcha”. I may be off base, but was it advertised as 100% autonomous? I’m just impressed with the form factor, dexterity, and battery life. Feels like everyone’s grasping at straws to cast the event as a failure.

India

Former GE investor here - everything you've said is spot on.

Our modus operandi was that a growth equity investment should _never_ go to zero. The new portfolio thinking has shifted to the right: 1/3 make 1-2x, 1/3 make 2-3x, 1/3 make 3x or more.

Why does facebook continue to allow the running of political ads and all the headache that comes with it (despite it being a minuscule piece of it's overall revenue)? Power. You can see this as being the most tone-deaf way possible to address the problem, or as a power grab to become an arbiter of truth.