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0 pointsimtringued6y ago0 comments

Exactly, you're not going to have the first mover advantage if you are waiting for someone to be ahead of you.

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But if you are someone like lockhead you have money to wait for spacex to fizzle out, headhunt their talent, and outperform with your military industrial complex connections and 70 years of working in aerospace.

zpeti6y ago

Yeah, just like Ford and GM waited out Tesla to fail... (and SpaceX is profitable as opposed to Tesla)

dobleboble6y ago

Tesla made a profit of $143 million in Q3 2019 on record deliveries

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/tesla-made-a-profit-of-...

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