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4 hours agoTechCrunch Mobility: Elon's admission | TechCrunch
Tesla owners will need hardware upgrades for future Full Self-Driving software, requiring microfactories to service millions of vehicles.
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10 hours agoNASA advisor turned $65 billion founder says ex-Intel CEO Andy Grove helped him get out of a crisis: 'That's a lesson I will take to my grave' | Fortune
Employees can be a crucial resource for CEOs during crises, as demonstrated by K.R. Sridhar's experience with Andy Grove.
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3 hours agoPremium E-Bike Maker Leaves the US, CA's Conflicting E-Bike Bills, IL May Require Insurance & Registration | TWR Ep 80
Riese & Müller will withdraw from the US market due to tariff chaos and challenging market conditions, effective July 31st.
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Higher education
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4 days agoElon Musk thinks college is 'basically for fun'-but his former Tesla HR chief tells Gen Z even their liberal arts degrees are more valuable than ever | Fortune
Valerie Capers Workman emphasizes the enduring value of higher education despite rising costs and job market challenges.
Bootstrapping
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3 days agoPeople who start businesses in their 50s and 60s have an advantage no 25-year-old can replicate - they've already failed inside someone else's company on someone else's dime, and every mistake they watched a boss make is a mistake they'll never repeat, and that accumulated library of other people's errors is worth more than any startup capital because it buys something money can't - Silicon Canals
Experience and lessons learned over decades provide a significant advantage in entrepreneurship compared to starting young.
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4 days agoAn Instacart founder shares his sneaker test for entrepreneurs
If you're looking at a founder and they got dirty white sneakers, you're a real builder. They don't have time to buy nice sneakers; they just put on the same pair of sneakers, and they get dirty.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day agoCan electric air taxis carry passengers? Vertical Aerospace's VX4 just cleared a key test
Vertical Aerospace successfully tested its VX4 eVTOL aircraft, demonstrating a crucial transition from helicopter to airplane flight, moving closer to certification.
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1 month agoPardoned Nikola founder Trevor Milton is trying to raise $1B for AI-powered planes | TechCrunch
Milton and an "investment group" purchased a downtrodden aviation company called SyberJet Aircraft late last year, and has spent the time since trying to turn the company around. That involves bringing in "dozens" of former Nikola staff, soliciting possible investors from Saudi Arabia, and spending a few hundred thousand dollars on lobbying, according to the report.
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3 days agoElon Musk admits that millions of Tesla vehicles won't get unsupervised FSD
For customers that have bought FSD, what we're offering is essentially a discounted trade-in for cars that have AI4 hardware. We'll also be offering the ability to upgrade the car to replace the computer.
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fromwww.dw.com
1 month agoElon Musk's Tesla experiment: Unchecked ambition costs lives
Elon Musk faces criticism for union opposition at Tesla's Berlin plant, safety concerns with autopilot technology, and support for far-right politics, while a documentary exposes whistleblower accounts of workplace intimidation and suppressed safety issues.
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