Beautiful stuff.
With no cash left and desperately cutting capex which means no M3 ramp and no Model Y in sight, he couldn't hype the M3 ramp or Model Y any more, so he did the old donkey carrot trick again:
Your average Tesla investor
Classic confidence man. Open big with a lie ("funding secured") and a shiny fake target ($420). Play people's FOMO ("I don't want miss out on $420!"). Assuage all their concerns with lies ("Anyone who wants to keep their stock, can!", "funding secured!"). Attack the evil shorts for trying to tear down his noble company (every good con needs a devil trying to harm their noble selfless goal).
Then, leverage those lies (fake "funding secured") - into an offering to join this "funding secured" investment at $420, because he wants to get a "wide investors pool" to "avoid concentration of ownership".
This is stock fraud on such an epic scale, and so blatant, he now has a big SEC target on his back. They can't ignore it. This is certainly their top priority case now.
Previous Musk donkey carrot FOMOs (look at the shiny object! If you sell now you'll miss out!):
- Permanently profitable claimed in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- "Fully Self Driving" features coming in "3 months possibly, 6 months definitely" - January 2017
- 5000 M3s/week by the end of 2017 [knowingly false statement]
- Machine that builds the machines/air friction limited robot factory that outdoes the majors
- Beautiful solar roofs (they were mocked up frauds that didn't even exist).
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2 years for full autonomy in 2015
Quote:
Producing a fully autonomous vehicle that can operate in any condition and on any road, for example, is easy-ish. And Tesla Motors (tsla, +0.27%), the all-electric automaker that Musk heads, is two years away from achieving it.
There are dozens.
One of the best frauds of the 21st century so far. No quite as impressive as Madoff, but a solid #2 imo.
I guess it's a race now between the SEC and high end Model 3 demand drying up. My guess is the SEC has to act strongly and swiftly after such a public, high level, blatant stock fraud, but who knows.
Last edited by ToothSayer; 08-10-2018 at 04:14 PM.