I'm a 5th Dan in Retarditsu

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I love dan Nathan. He's so negative like me

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Accounting edit In 2017, a lawsuit alleged Tesla made materially false and misleading statements regarding its preparedness to produce Model 3 cars.[23] The U.S. Department of Justice also began an investigation in 2018 into whether Tesla misled investors and misstated production figures about the Model 3.[24] The lawsuit was dismissed in Tesla’s favor in March 2019.[25] In 2018 Francine McKenna, investigative journalist and lecturer in accounting at Wharton, claimed Tesla made use of new revenue recognition accounting rules (adopted 1 January 2018) to post a first-quarter revenue beat. The new rules allow cars leased through its leasing partners to generally qualify to be accounted for as sales with a right of return, rather than operating leases, allowing an accelerating recording of revenue for Tesla.[26] In May 2018, Tesla reported a final adjustment of $623 million to its cumulative earnings resulting from the revenue recognition change. In November 2019, hedge fund manager David Einhorn accused Elon Musk of “significant fraud”[27] and in April 2020, questioned Tesla’s accounting, in particular their large accounts receivable balance.[28] Musk responded on X (formerly Twitter) to Einhorn’s claims with a kissing-face emoji and attached a letter signed “Treelon Musk” containing “...It is understandable you wish to save face with your investors ... [and] desire to feel somehow relevant with your Tesla short position.”[citation needed] In the same letter, Musk promised to send Einhorn “a small gift of short shorts”.[citation needed] Einhorn later received a package of shorts from Musk but Einhorn noted they came with “some manufacturing defects”.[29] Later, in 2020, numerous reporters and financial analysts speculated that Tesla could be the next Wirecard scandal.[30][31][32] The SEC received a whistleblower complaint in 2021 from former Tesla employee Lukasz Krupski[33] detailing numerous allegations that Tesla “may have violated securities law and flouted accounting standards.” The SEC looked at one portion of the complaint, then closed the investigation without interviewing the submitters or evaluating the 18,000 files of documentation.[34] As reported first by Handelsblatt, Krupski then leaked the so-called Tesla Files, leading to court injunctions and warnings from the corporation.[35] Krupski received the 2023 Blueprint Europe Whistleblowing Prize for his work.[36][37] The Tesla Files, a book by Sönke Iwersen and Michael Verfürden based on the material uncovered by Krupski, was published on 24 July 2025 by Penguin Michael Joseph.[38] In August 2023, Tesla’s Chief Financial Officer Zach Kirkhorn resigned unexpectedly. Dan Ives, a tech analyst at Wedbush Securities, speculated about various scenarios in which Kirkhorn might have left amicably, but also speculated about one possible scenario where Kirkhorn may have left due to a disagreement with Musk over “some aspect of strategy or succession”.[39] Don’t forget the 1$ trillion dollar pay package is still NOT ON THE BOOKS!

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Stupid Lieutenant Dan and his fruit company. That legless bastard has got to be rich as hell.

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It's every asshole on CNBC. Dan Nathan and Guy Adami jerking each other off every day to a chart of the market collapse of 1929. And somewhere in betwen Carter Worth manages an entire sentence.

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But you ain’t got no hands Lieutenant Dan.

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Dang Dan Ives just raised price target in PLTR makes we want to grab calls. Maybe I will get an FD

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TSLR sold 133 cars in Sweden in October but I’ll have to listen to Dan Ives tell me why it’s worth $600 a share today

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Dan ives: 🥵

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Dan Ives about to go on CNBC to tell us why AAPL is a generational buy

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