Lawrence Fossi’s Substack
Insights about the egregious behavior of Elon Musk, the chaotic craziness at Tesla, Inc., and the poisonous alliance of Musk and Donald Trump, all with a legal slant informed by my career as a commercial trial lawyer.
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Starship Flight 14: Achieving Orbit Will Be Nice, But Why Isn’t It Attempting Much More? (opens the original)
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SpaceX’s Starship Flight 14, originally announced for Sept. 22, is now reset to Sept. 28. By the time you read this, it may have already been completed.Flight 14 will be the first attempt to achieve orbit; all earlier flights have been suborbital. That will be a significant milestone.But even if Flight 14 successfully achieves orbit, there are many other questions including (1) reusability of the Super Heavy booster, (2) reusability of the “Ship” payload stage, (3) performance of the Ship’s heat
A Few Thoughts About Alex Gibney’s Musk Documentary (opens the original)
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In February 2023, a producer for Alex Gibney asked if I would be willing to be interviewed for a documentary Gibney was working on about Elon Musk.I knew that in the world of documentary films, Gibney was a superstar. His Taxi To the Dark Side won an Oscar in 2007 for Best Documentary Feature. Among his dozens of films are documentaries on Enron (The Smartest Guys in the Room), Elizabeth Holmes (The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley), and Lance Armstrong (The Armstrong Lie).I also knew G
Elon Musk's Hubris May Doom any Tesla-SpaceX Merger (opens the original)
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A. The Merger ChatterFor months, many have speculated that, ultimately, Tesla and SpaceX will merge. On the latest earnings call, Musk teased the idea some more:Well, I mean, as you can tell from all - the many collaborations on so many fronts with SpaceX and there's a lot - there's more and more overlap, especially with Terafab, that's really going to be a gigantic project. So - but obviously, we can't talk about combining companies and that kind of thing on an earnings call. It's got to be don
How Musk Is Again Stealing Billions from Mom & Pop Investors (opens the original)
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A. Musk Cracks the CodeElon Musk cracked the code years ago. He realized the easiest way to steal billions of dollars was to take just a small amount from each of the tens of millions of retirement savers.And he realized the theft would work best if those savers never understood that their pockets had been picked.He simply needed a partner in crime. And in 2020, he found the perfect partner: the index committee that determines what stocks will be included in the S&P 500 index.<div class="caption
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