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Documenting grift

Joined January 2021
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If you ever wonder if Twitter used to be better before Musk, have a look at your bookmarks. The number and quality of my bookmarks fell off a cliff since the ketamine-induced impulse buy.
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I wrote down in personal notes what I got from this website. Needless to say, the return of time spent is abysmal.
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Deleting this app for good, see you later aligators
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Gross incompetence? Fraudulent promotion? I hope as a CFA you know, Tasha, that an investment recommendation must be made with a reasonable basis. Otherwise you lose your charter for violating the Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics. A $7-$10.9 trillion market cap expected range by 2029 makes ARK perhaps the biggest charlatan of the modern era of fleecing the retail investor. Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia are today valued at “only” $9.6 trillion. The whole S&P is valued at $44 trillion and 24 times forward earnings. Your 2029 4.1% free cash yield suggests a 24 multiple to earnings for the car company, suggesting $450 billion in 2029 profits (today’s REVENUES are $95 billion). Holy delusion, Batman. You couldn’t help yourself by topping last year’s ridiculous predictions by 25% despite flat revenues and fast-declining margins and profits. This one is is a doozy: “Our research suggests that generalizable humanoid robots represent a ~$24 trillion global revenue opportunity at scale.” You do realize the entirety of global GDP is just over $100 trillion? That Tesla Insurance continues to make an appearance in your factually devoid analysis brings humor to the entire episode of the promotion of your book and the car company. Suggesting the insurance business will be nearly as large as Progressive is today? Have you seen the 40% operating losses on the so minuscule book of auto insurance that it doesn’t merit mention in the company’s financial statements? Three years ago you predicted a 40% operating profit in insurance. I guess you meant losses, which actually makes sense. Not sure why @SECEnfDirector hasn’t descended on ARK’s offices in St. Pete or why @CFAinstitute is apparently disinterested in investigating a lack of reasonable basis in your “research” but one thing remains - ARK sure does know how to put a spin on the promote while eviscerating retail investment capital. At least you guys have gotten rich with more than $400 million in management fees while losing literally tens of billions. Grifters gonna grift.
Our updated Tesla model is now out! ark-invest.com/articles/valu… Autonomous driving likely will be one of the most life-changing AI unlocks in history, and quite meaningful for Tesla shareholders:
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Some people should go watch Glass Onion and reflect for a bit.
Replying to @RubinReport
Will share more in bit but have to catch a flight. On a personal note Elon is funny as hell, laughs a ton and it’s just really obvious he cares about Twitter because he cares about free speech and the bigger problems facing the world. He doesn’t need this headache, he chose it.
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Elon’s secretary this morning screening more margin calls from Morgan Stanley $TSLAQ
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SBF arrested ✔️ Fintwit charlatans arrested ✔️ Tesla down -60% YTD ✔️ Laser eyes, JPEG's nowhere to be found ✔️ McDonald's job application rising ✔️ Nature is healing 🌿
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All the smartest people I know are going into web3. On an unrelated note, all of them are prosecutors.
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Twitter Employee: Sir we are not able to get the code from Git. Musk Melon: Who is Git? Why isn't he in the office? I said no Work From Home!
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I don't wanna make a broad generalization but you have to admit it's at least *interesting* that everyone who likes Elon Musk is the biggest loser you've ever met.
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2002: “Organize the world's information.” 2007: “Connect with all your friends.” 2012: “The Sharing Economy.” 2017: “I don’t know. Chat bots?” 2020: “Fuck it. Ponzi schemes.”
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21/ By continuing to increase the interconnected nature of these seemingly unrelated sectors, we create tunnels through which the contagion of crisis in one market bleeds directly into the other. We also open risky channels to foreign adversaries who aim to wreak havoc.
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Competition is heating up for the grifter-of-the-year award. Your move @elonmusk
I’m sick of seeing failed executives make millions in risk free compensation while shareholders are left holding the bag
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A $400 million, 12.7% pop on MicroStrategy earnings? Must have been a huge quarter. But was it? You'd have to look far and wide for a management so determined to mask reality. I don't recall a more deceitful and puffed earnings release and call. By any company. Maybe Enron. 1/
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Have we ever had a white collar recession but full employment in blue collar? seems like the only thing data suggests right now
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The most successful companies after reading this thread:
35 business ideas of how web3 could improve or disrupt the most successful companies:
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The purpose of Hyperledger is for a bunch of mid-level managers to say they built something on blockchain without actually using a blockchain, so they can write a press release. It's at best just a glorified SQL database with some bullshit marketing around it.
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