[bdcravens]

The ratios are different, but Uber lost over $2B last year, and overall, has lost $9B.

Tesla didn't turn a profit for 8 years, until 2020, and from 2016-2018, regularly had 12 trailing months of $1B losses or more.

[cj]

Worth mentioning the thing that likely motivated TSLA to be profitable is that it’s a requirement to be considered for inclusion in the S&P 500 index.

[panick21_]

I don't really think that is worth mentioning. Tesla always wanted to be profitable, to get their they need a high margin mass production vehicle. Since they had that, the Model 3, they have been profitable. The Model 3 was always the plan.