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If you buy a list from outside and blast email out to those email addresses you are SPAMMING. There i something you should know about SPAM.

United States

In the United States, most states enacted anti-spam laws during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Many of these have since been pre-empted by the less restrictive CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 ("CAN-SPAM").

Spam is legally permissible according to CAN-SPAM, provided it meets certain criteria: a "truthful" subject line, no forged information in the technical headers or sender address, and other minor requirements. If the spam fails to comply with any of these requirements it is illegal. Aggravated or accelerated penalties apply if the spammer harvested the email addresses using methods described earlier.

A review of the effectiveness of CAN-SPAM in 2005 by the Federal Trade Commission (the agency charged with CAN-SPAM enforcement) stated that the amount of sexually explicit spam had significantly decreased since 2003 and the total volume had begun to level off.[27] Senator Conrad Burns, a principal sponsor, noted that "Enforcement is key regarding the CAN-SPAM legislation." In 2004, less than one percent of spam complied with CAN-SPAM.[28] In contrast to the FTC evaluation, many observers view CAN-SPAM as having failed in its purpose of reducing spam.[

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam

I learned from my swimming coach that the way to swim faster is not anything to do with stroke faster or kick more ... It is to reduce drag. It used to take me 13 strokes to go 25 yards ... by just concentrating reducing drag, I was able to reduce that to 10 strokes. That is 25% improvement. I swam faster and smoother by stroking slower.

Do you think there is a lesson to be learned here that can be applied to your business?

This is one pf the newest drawing of Pompom.

Gas price is starting to fall down.
It was at $3.059 at Costco today.

My new ride has arrived just now.
I will see if I can commute on it.

Following email was posted on TESLA website ... What do you think?
It is very similar to Michael Dell taking Dell to Private.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/taking-tesla-private


August 7, 2018
The following email was sent to Tesla employees today:

Earlier today, I announced that I’m considering taking Tesla private at a price of $420/share. I wanted to let you know my rationale for this, and why I think this is the best path forward.

First, a final decision has not yet been made, but the reason for doing this is all about creating the environment for Tesla to operate best. As a public company, we are subject to wild swings in our stock price that can be a major distraction for everyone working at Tesla, all of whom are shareholders. Being public also subjects us to the quarterly earnings cycle that puts enormous pressure on Tesla to make decisions that may be right for a given quarter, but not necessarily right for the long-term. Finally, as the most shorted stock in the history of the stock market, being public means that there are large numbers of people who have the incentive to attack the company.

I fundamentally believe that we are at our best when everyone is focused on executing, when we can remain focused on our long-term mission, and when there are not perverse incentives for people to try to harm what we’re all trying to achieve.

This is especially true for a company like Tesla that has a long-term, forward-looking mission. SpaceX is a perfect example: it is far more operationally efficient, and that is largely due to the fact that it is privately held. This is not to say that it will make sense for Tesla to be private over the long-term. In the future, once Tesla enters a phase of slower, more predictable growth, it will likely make sense to return to the public markets.

Here’s what I envision being private would mean for all shareholders, including all of our employees.

First, I would like to structure this so that all shareholders have a choice. Either they can stay investors in a private Tesla or they can be bought out at $420 per share, which is a 20% premium over the stock price following our Q2 earnings call (which had already increased by 16%). My hope is for all shareholders to remain, but if they prefer to be bought out, then this would enable that to happen at a nice premium.

Second, my intention is for all Tesla employees to remain shareholders of the company, just as is the case at SpaceX. If we were to go private, employees would still be able to periodically sell their shares and exercise their options. This would enable you to still share in the growing value of the company that you have all worked so hard to build over time.

Third, the intention is not to merge SpaceX and Tesla. They would continue to have separate ownership and governance structures. However, the structure envisioned for Tesla is similar in many ways to the SpaceX structure: external shareholders and employee shareholders have an opportunity to sell or buy approximately every six months.

Finally, this has nothing to do with accumulating control for myself. I own about 20% of the company now, and I don’t envision that being substantially different after any deal is completed.

Basically, I’m trying to accomplish an outcome where Tesla can operate at its best, free from as much distraction and short-term thinking as possible, and where there is as little change for all of our investors, including all of our employees, as possible.

This proposal to go private would ultimately be finalized through a vote of our shareholders. If the process ends the way I expect it will, a private Tesla would ultimately be an enormous opportunity for all of us. Either way, the future is very bright and we’ll keep fighting to achieve our mission.

Thanks,
Elon

Tiny may have bad a seizure this afternoon. He displayed symptoms few time in the past but this one was longer than usual. Mayumi took Tiny to the emergency room in Kirkland. I hope he recovers from it.

I asked Pompom to be with Tiny.

No project can be managed without setting and knowing the goal. When you know the goal, you must have the target date when the project is complete. And you need to keep track the progress. It is absolutely unacceptable for anyone to say, "we cannot meed the deadline on the lastly of the project".

First you set the goal then you break it down to the smallest steps possible and proceed with review on every step. That is the only way you can manage any project.

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