Maybe instead of looking at revenue you should look at profit. Revenue means nothing if your running costs eat it all up.
Also, maybe try to look at YouTube Numbers instead of the whole parent company? The patient company being profitable isn't an excuse for the child company to lose money.
As far as I know YouTube is not that profitable, but it's hard to tell as they don't release all the numbers.
Do you make any excess money? Do you have any money left over after rent, food, etc? If you do, do you need that money? If you don't would you like to make more? Nobody wants to live with no excess money, so why should a business?
Part of the problem might be all those people blocking the ads, which I wouldn't be surprised if it's a pretty big chunk of their viewers. No ads means no ad revenue, which means losing money.
Do you really think they would stop paying creators before stopping people from bypassing the way both them and creators make money? It doesn't take a business major to see that running a free service without ads is only going to cost them money.
USA, 33, daily drive a stick.
Bought my first car with my own money in 2013, a 2014 WRX, it only came in manual. I've been driving it since.
If they could find a better liar and hype man than musk, that would be a miracle.
Pretty sure the hard shutdown still works without any code though
If you had someone honest at the head of Tesla saying realistic stuff like "we won't have FSD for at least a decade, robotaxis even longer, and it's going to take more than just the cameras we have" and "due to legal liability concerns we are pulling FSD from the market until it's ready" , I don't think you would have nearly that market cap.
Tesla built that market cap off Mr Hypeman, the market cap only begins to make sense if those hype promises are realistic. If Mr Reality takes over Tesla that market cap is going to crash hard, they need Mr Hypeman.
Why are you revancing Relay if it works already? Relay does appear to be following the new rules and will work unaffected.
It's not just the share percent, it's the whole company culture, he is the face of Tesla and his crazy thinking and over promising got the company this far. I doubt it would have gotten this far with a more rational and ethical CEO.
He is the ultimate hype man, without him Tesla just wouldn't have the same pull IMO.
So you want to live just making ends meet? Don't care about having a savings account? You would be happy with just enough to get by without any excess? I don't know anybody who would be happy with that.
If you want to run away from the conversation then go ahead. If you do happen to have some money you don't want though, since who needs to make more than what they need just to break even even, right? I'll happily take it off your hands.