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adityamwagh
50 days ago
And somehow he’s worth $655B. Pays to lie I guess haha.
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yifanl
50 days ago
Lying is a competitive advantage, yes. Why do you think companies have marketing budgets?
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voxadam
49 days ago
Didn't Musk famously shutter Tesla's marketing department two years ago, nearly to the day?[1] It seems it's quite possible to lie effectively, repeatedly, and pervasively even without a marking department. Maybe Musk is just
that
good.
[1]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-22/tesla-cut...
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stonogo
49 days ago
They shuttered
a
marketing department -- the Content Growth team -- and Tesla still has marketing teams around the world.
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Zigurd
49 days ago
The army of YouTube stock pumpers didn't appear spontaneously. There's a budget for that.
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