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Given the recent Elon Musk drama I point you to our Musk-related articles which include our CEORater CEO Personality Analytics work. In short, Musk is a volatile personality. The Tesla / Twitter drama was all too predictable. CEOs Matter: Elon Musk. GM’s Mary Barra vs. Tesla’s Elon Musk – A CEO Personality Comparison Elon Musk … Continue reading We Predicted Elon Musk’s Behavior
It is a joke that we are in December and Snowflake (SNOW) did not publish a FY 2024/calendar year 2023 outlook: https://investors.snowflake.com/events-and-presentations/default.aspx SNOW remains overvalued at about 15x calendar 2023 Revenue (assumes CY'23 Revenue of $3 billion). That will change next year. It is not surprising that Bret Taylor is no longer Salesforce (CRM), Co-CEO … Continue reading Snowflake & Salesforce: Outlooks & Leadership
I wonder what the Tesla/Elon Musk bulls are thinking now that TSLA shares are significantly off and Musk is distracted by Twitter? Musk is an erratic, volatile personality and getting distracted easily is what such personalities do. We warned you that Musk was not the world's greatest corporate chief (articles below), and certainly not the … Continue reading CEOs Matter: Elon Musk.
The grow-at-all-costs venture capital culture of the past 20-plus years ruins companies. How? Far too much focus is placed on revenue growth at the expense of sound operations and profitability. Too many venture-backed companies grow at a pace that far outstrips those companies' ability to scale operations in a manner that supports growth. The result … Continue reading VC Culture Ruins Companies
Ad Revenue models are predicated upon the type of discretionary spend that gets hit during economic soft patches. Twitter missed earlier today (the proposed Musk transaction and macro softness were the primary contributors in our view). SNAP also came in weak and pulled guidance. As we wrote earlier this month, Ad Revs, Consulting Revs and … Continue reading We Told You Ad Revs Would Come In Soft
The September quarter will also likely suffer as a result of the proposed Musk acquisition litigation. Here are the June quarter results: click HEREHere is our Twitter (ticker: TWTR), note from earlier this week: Twitter Is A Dumpster Fire
I have never witnessed a Technology company that so obviously lacks Product Market Fit ("PMF"), choose to ignore this existential weakness and instead focus on M&A litigation. Twitter (ticker: TWTR), has its priorities out of order. Perhaps it is because Twitter knows that it lacks PMF and the culture to solve the problem that it … Continue reading Twitter Is A Dumpster Fire
Twitter (TWTR), is not willing to be more forthcoming in its M&A due diligence process with Elon Musk because the company knows it has a Bot problem. Twitter knows that a 20-40% Bot problem will result in a similar haircut by Mr. Musk to the deal's total purchase consideration. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal is spinning … Continue reading Twitter Is Lying Through Its Teeth
Here is our follow-up to our recent article Facebook Will Be Next. We have stated on a number of occasions that social media companies such as Meta/Facebook and Twitter overstate the number of active users given that the active user metric is a self-reported figure and given that no outside firm has the ability to … Continue reading Facebook and The Blockchain
We have long questioned the integrity of the reported user metrics disclosed by Twitter (TWTR) and Facebook (FB), as it relates to the number of fake user accounts in a given reporting period (See our recent article Elon Musk Does Perform Due Diligence). A recent Twitter study by SparkToro and Followerwonk claim that 19% of … Continue reading Facebook Will Be Next
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