Well folks, it finally happened. The screen in your pickup truck… your last bastion of peace from the chaos of unskippable advertisements… now plays popup ads. Not even subtle ones. We’re talking full-dash, head-unit-commandeering infomercial panels in your RAM 1500, like you’re driving a Times Square billboard on wheels. It all kicked off with a […]
I was concerned about that too, so I did some digging. I don’t think it’s anything beyond angel investment currently. No stocks (slate is private), and no obvious strings.
My guess is, it’s to ensure slate sticks around long enough to be a target for future plans. Maybe an amazon slate fleet?
Could also be the billionaire class equivalent of trying to start a pissing match with the existing auto makers.
Pissing match. Elon and Beez are famously pricks to each other. Beez often is an angel investor into any credible threat to Tesla or SpaceX, presumably, because pissing match.
I was concerned about that too, so I did some digging. I don’t think it’s anything beyond angel investment currently. No stocks (slate is private), and no obvious strings.
My guess is, it’s to ensure slate sticks around long enough to be a target for future plans. Maybe an amazon slate fleet?
Could also be the billionaire class equivalent of trying to start a pissing match with the existing auto makers.
Pissing match. Elon and Beez are famously pricks to each other. Beez often is an angel investor into any credible threat to Tesla or SpaceX, presumably, because pissing match.