A composer writes music and an orchestra plays it, but don’t ask them to swap. If the orchestra wrote the tunes, you’d get a cacophony instead of a symphony; few great things were ever created by committee. Car manufacturers work the same way. Just as an orc…
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It’s time for Tesla to go into stealth mode for the rest of 2019
In the startup world, when a company is fresh and new and modestly funded, it will typically spend a few years under the radar, trying to develop a viable product or service. When it’s time to take that business to market, the startup exits “stealth” mode and…
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JOHN HIGGS on the ‘grounds for believing in a better world ahead of us’
When I was growing up in the 1970s, the future was not merely bright, it was thrilling. The dawn of computers, real spaceships and previously unimagined inventions such as the microwave oven suggested the coming years would be a dazzling time of freedom and…
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Uber, Lyft losses keep competitors at bay
In this Friday, March 29, 2019 file photo, Lyft co-founders John Zimmer, front second from left, and Logan Green, front second from right, cheer as they as they ring a ceremonial opening bell in Los Angeles, to mark trading on the Nasdaq exchange under the ti…
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Uber and Lyft are big, popular and massively in debt
A fare war between Uber and Lyft has led to billions of dollars in losses for both ride-hailing companies as they fight for passengers and drivers. But in one way it has been good for investors who snatched up the newly public companies’ stock: The losses h…
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