{"id":15276,"date":"2017-11-30T04:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=15276"},"modified":"2018-01-12T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:40:08","slug":"full-of-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/business\/management-leadership\/full-of-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Full of losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Are losses being taken seriously?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 7\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Chesapeake Energy, Netflix, Nextera Energy, Tesla and Uber have collectively lost US$100 billion in the past decade, but nobody takes it seriously.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 7\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div id=\"attachment_15277\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15277\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt-300x146.jpg 300w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt-500x244.jpg 500w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt-580x283.jpg 580w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt-600x293.jpg 600w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt-700x342.jpg 700w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt-768x375.jpg 768w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt-860x420.jpg 860w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt-1024x500.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt-1160x566.jpg 1160w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tt.jpg 5624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla also confirmed it had missed its Model 3 production goal for the third quarter.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tesla, a maker of electric cars, has so far this year missed its production targets and lost US$1.8 billion of free cash flow. No matter. As its founder Elon Musk muses aloud about driverless cars and space travel, its shares rise like a rocket\u2014by 66% since the start of January.<\/p>\n<p>The company reportedly fired hundreds of workers recently and is facing a complaint from the United Auto Workers.<\/p>\n<p>Losses have made the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/business\/industry\/tesla-loses-top-spot-u-s-automakers-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lose its top-spot in the automaker market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>A group full of losses<\/strong><\/h6>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 7\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Amazon lost US$4 billion in 2012-14 while building an empire that now makes money. Nonetheless, it is rare for big companies to sustain heavy losses just to expand fast.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Steve Jobs and Apple lost just US$874 million in its worst year:, 1993.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 7\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Firms that burn piles of cash are often gloridied in an era when growth is sluggish and few companies reinvest all their profits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 7\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>But losing a billion dollars or more a year is a wildly risky a air and the odds are that such businesses will fall at. Surprising? Probably not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are losses being taken seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,54],"tags":[571,177],"class_list":["post-15276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-management-leadership","category-printed-version","tag-losses","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15278,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276\/revisions\/15278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}