Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. Love him or hate him, Elon Musk attracts as much attention as any CEO in memory. The latest example: this week’s Tesla earnings call, an obligatory event that at times seemed to be anticipated as a borderline cultural happening. Of course, a public company with a whopping market cap like Tesla’s will draw plenty of investor interest in its latest numbers. Of course, there were the usual...
For Ellen DeGeneres, toxic-workplace allegations that clouded her long-running daytime series marked the end of an era. This week, the comedian's public fallout became comeback material. Two years after “The Ellen DeGeneres Show" aired its final episode in 2022, its 66-year-old host re-entered the spotlight with a Thursday night set at Largo at the Coronet Theatre. During her set, the first on her Ellen’s Last Stand Up Tour, DeGeneres joked to her audience, "I got kicked out of show business,"...
The 43-year-old reality TV icon acquired the rights to Sarah Ditum's book Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s, which hit shelves on January 23
Elon Musk's new plan to use current product lines as the basis for new affordable vehicles - rather than springing for all-new models - follows the playbook of Tesla's old-school Detroit rivals, as some Tesla investors and analysts see it. The shift toward incremental improvement, mirroring a common strategy of Ford and General Motors, suggests the future of car-making that Musk has promised to disrupt may still look a lot like the past. Musk's new strategy followed an exclusive Reuters report...
Earnings miss notwithstanding, momentum continued to build for Tesla's stock, which was rallying 11% in after hours trading. That's in large part because the EV maker said it plans on adding to its lineup and marketing a cheaper EV as early as next year, while investing in robotaxis as well. These
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After a dismal quarter for Tesla, CEO Elon Musk tried to reassure investors the company’s real value was its effort to perfect self-driving cars.
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Brian Wang and Randy Kirk recorded this discussion four days before the Q1 earnings call on Tuesday April 23. We predicted several aspects of the earnings call but also post earnings developments. This was recorded at the same time as the reaction video to the insightful BG2 Pod that Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley made.
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Part 1: Newton, Rosicrucianism and the Imperial Control of Science Part 2: Tesla’s Eugenics (and other Black Magick) Part 3: Tesla and his Nazi Friend The Strangest Friendship20 In the wake of H.G. Wells’ famous War of the Worlds published in 1898, a wave of “Martian mania” spread across the western world with channelers, mediums and psychics […]