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by isthispermanent 2446 days ago
And if you were to successfully achieve, or begin to achieve, market scale your revenue/income statement would look a lot like this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%2C_Inc.#/media/File:Tesl...

It took Amazon about 12 years to get to the same revenue/income balance... http://infographic.statista.com/normal/chartoftheday_4298_am...

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Sure maybe it would look like that if Tesla were in fact Amazon. But Tesla makes cars, they don't sell tablecloths and rent servers.

There is very high operating leverage in Automotive manufacturing. Hence why this cycle continues forever:

Elon: That's it, we don't need to raise anymore outside capital! 9 months later: Insert equity/bond/convert raise here.