[sjcoles]

Yet on the official Discord just as of a few days ago he was begging for sales and pitching for people start reselling the devices.

George is bright but not a stable leader. Every month it's some new scheme or feature that will "sell 10x the units!"

No, it won't, not with the lack of support and poor attitude from Comma. If George wants to sell 10x the units it must be a consumer device and treated by Comma as one.

[bko]

It would be great to sell 10x the units, but theyre profitable and chugging along just fine. It's exhausting tho working on the same problem for years with incremental steady growth, but it's working. I understand the frustration at times.

I imagine some company will finally get their shit together, and start buying wholesale and installing in their cars as an option. Until that time it'll continue to grow and still be a niche product

[ushakov]

no wonder given George's attitude against business people

in his own words (from Part 2):

> I’d say that 95% of people I met in the hacker world were good people; only 5% bad. The business world has this flipped. To get ahead in the hacker world you need skills. To get ahead in the business world you need psychopathy.

maybe he needs to be more open and not let his negative feelings about business people worsen his business

[jjoonathan]

> no wonder they're in this position

Lean, scrappy, profitable, and ahead? One negative comment on HN isn't exactly a crisis. A fluctuation in "profitable" wouldn't exactly be a crisis, either, given that the rest of this industry looks like a money bonfire.

> maybe he needs to be more open and not let his negative feelings about business people worsen his business

Neg harder.

[anton_ai]

It is not easy to hire a business leader in the AI sector that knows something about AI. And here is not even the "easy" AI, we are talking about autonomous driving that is like the edge of innovation in AI using computer vision and reinforcement learning. It is hard to find technical people that knows RL, it is much easier for the funder to get better in the business side.

[dubswithus]

Lack of support and poor attitude? That's the playbook for Tesla's FSD. So maybe it can work again?