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hey it's dave so we have
a new elon musk
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interview by the
financial times
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released just today i'll
link to it in
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the video description
below i want to go
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ahead and share some
highlights from
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this interview i think
there are some
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great comments and
insights from elon
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and i'll share my
reactions and thoughts
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as well um i'm confident
that we will be
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able to sell all the car
we can make
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so here elon musk is
asked if his
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involvement in twitter
will upset people
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and does have a
commercial impact will
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hurt tesla sales and elon
musk replies
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hey they've got a major
problem right
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now it's not
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a lack of sales rather
it's actually too
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many people or so many
people want to
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buy a tesla so he doesn't
anticipate any
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problems actually with
tesla sales we're
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actually probably going
to
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limit
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or just just stop taking
orders for for
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anything beyond a certain
period of time
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because
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you know some of the
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timing is like a year
away
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so so elon is sharing
that now they're
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considering to stop
taking orders if the
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wait time exceeds a
certain amount let's
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say over a year or so
this is just
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because you know they
don't want people
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waiting too long for
their cars there
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are some raw material
constraints that
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we see coming um
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here elon musk is asked
what are the
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major challenges to scale
to 20 million
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vehicles a year by 2030
and elon
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responds that yeah maybe
in three years
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or so there could be some
raw material
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challenges with lithium
mining also with
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cathode materials and
it's actually
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great to see elon and his
team
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look and plan ahead even
five to ten
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years out the road they
know the exact
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kind of demand and
production numbers
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that they aspire to right
they're
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looking to grow at least
50 per year
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they know what are the
major hiccups
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what are the major major
roadblocks and
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limiting factors and they
can plan and
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intentionally try to
overcome them and
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actually start
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the process even right
now it's really
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the the equipment
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i think this is the
single brick
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constraint would be the
equipment
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necessary to convert the
ore into
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battery grade materials
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and we're working on that
with suppliers
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so i'm not saying that
this is an
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impossible thing to
address it is simply
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uh one of the problems
along the way to
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getting 20 million
vehicles so elon
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expounds on actually the
specific
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problems of raw materials
it's basically
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the equipment that's
required to
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actually mine and process
these
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materials the equipment
is not scaling
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or if tesla doesn't get
involved in the
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supply chain it's not
going to scale
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fast enough so that's why
tesla is
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stepping in they're
working with
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suppliers right now to
make sure in
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three to five years that
everything all
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the equipment is ready
and is actually
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deployed to mine and to
process all of
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the raw materials they
need right for
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their ambitious growth
plans
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there are no arbitrary
limitations on
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uh
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what's needed to
accelerate sustainable
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energy we'll just tackle
whatever set of
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things are needed to
accelerate
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sustainable energy and
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doing mining and refining
or buying a
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mining company provided
we think we can
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do
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we can change that mining
company's
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trajectory significantly
are
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possibilities yeah so i
really like elon
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musk's attitude here he's
basically
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saying there are going to
be no limits
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no restraints we're going
to do whatever
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it takes to transition
the world to
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sustainable energy so if
mining or
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processing raw materials
is the major
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bottleneck then tesla
will do whatever
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it takes to fix that
problem even if it
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means right acquiring
certain mining
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companies do you think
you're likely to
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stay at tesla as long as
that can be
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useful so elon is asked
how long does he
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intend to stay a tesla
elon responds as
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long as he can be useful
i think this is
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a great answer and i
think all tesla
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shareholders should be
actually pretty
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happy about this the
default plan
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actually i think is for
elon to stay
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with tesla um for the
indefinite feature
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i think also especially
with tesla's
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real world ai plans elon
sees a super
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long runway of innovation
and lots of
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things that he could
actually help with
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we can easily whip out a
prototype of
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any kind of car you could
possibly
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imagine with a small team
in six months
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now
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we have a team of 100
people in six
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months now to bring that
to fruition
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with high volume
production is 10 000
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people
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in two years and that's
three times
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faster than the rest of
industry here
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elon is detailing a bit
more of his
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thoughts on prototyping
versus
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production he says with
the team of 100
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people in six months he
can whip out any
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prototype he wants but in
order to scale
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right to production or
actually full
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production they're gonna
have to have
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ten thousand people over
two years to do
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that it's a massive
difference
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so
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so we're just going to
take the heat
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but if we believe that uh
that that the
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quality of
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injury is reduced and we
have very are
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very confident of that uh
and and but we
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also know that we're
going to be sued
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despite doing the right
thing we will do
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the right thing and get
stewed elon is
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asked about fsd and
liability and elon
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shares that they're going
to do the
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right thing no matter
what even if a lot
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of people sue them if
they get a lot of
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lawsuits regarding fsd i
think this
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really separates tesla
from the rest
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elon is willing to push
the envelope to
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push fsd as fast as
possible because he
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really believes in saving
lives while
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other companies are going
to approach
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this a lot more
cautiously and being
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probably a lot more risk
averse well
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tesla is
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i think as much a
software company as it
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is a hardware company
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i think that's why
tesla's been able to
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recruit uh some of the
world's best
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software engineers uh is
because we we
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value software
engineering so highly
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and do not regard it as
as an
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afterthought elon dives
into the
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software advantage of
tesla a lot of
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people call tesla a car
company but i
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think they completely
overlook how much
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software expertise tesla
has acquired
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over the years we have an
incredible
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team we have the best
real world ai team
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in the world the the best
real world ai
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team that on earth
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and um
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and we're seeing more and
more uh
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incredibly talented
people join our team
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tesla has the best real
world ai team
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out there and they're
attracting some of
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the best artificial
intelligence
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specialists and experts
out there in the
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world and this is really
important
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because in artificial
intelligence you
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just can't compete with
subpar talent
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the talent really makes a
big difference
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and tesla is showing that
they're really
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hitting their group by
really being kind
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of this attractive
landing spot for some
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of the best talent in the
world and
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we're really not seeing
anyone else
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being close to solving
real world ai and
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we just don't see
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anyone else um that we're
aware of
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making any significant
progress in real
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world world ai apart from
tesla do i am
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quite confident that
we'll not really
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maintain our software
lead but
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increase it wow this is a
really bullish
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assessment by elon musk
he's basically
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saying that tesla is the
only player or
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the only real substantial
player really
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making big progress with
real world ai
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so what does this mean
this means that
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yeah tesla has really
cornered the
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market and i think a lot
of it deals
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with data um other
companies just
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haven't made the big
investments that
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tesla's made by
outfitting every single
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car right with autopilot
hardware that
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can actually run their
neural nets and
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collect the data that
they need i think
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tesla in some ways is not
just in the
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poll position but as elon
is saying is
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their lead is growing and
so he's
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confident that actually
tesla's software
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advantage will actually
grow in the
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future and not become
smaller
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the sort of separate
objectives with
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different shareholders
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and
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i think
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you know i don't see a
ton of merit in
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combining them elon is
asked if he's
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ever going to merge his
companies like
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spacex tesla neurolink
boarding company
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and elon puts the rumors
to us he
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basically says it's not
going to happen
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the shareholder bases are
just too
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different right they're
wanting
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different things and this
is what i've
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experienced talking to
some major
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shareholders there just
is no interest
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or actually opposition uh
to combining
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spacex and tesla into the
same company i
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think the future of tesla
is extremely
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strong
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so tesla's is has no debt
it has a lot
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of cash
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and you know there's
there's a sort of a
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short-term um hiccup with
the covered
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restrictions in in
shanghai
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uh but i i
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as for to the best of my
knowledge the
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future of tesla is
incredibly bright
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um and i think we will
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throw off
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a tremendous amount of
free cash flow
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elon musk gives a bold
case for tesla he
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says the future is super
bright
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regarding their balance
sheet right they
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have basically almost no
debt and they
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have a lot of cash on
hand he does give
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some risks short term
though he says in
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shanghai there's this
hiccup right we
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know that shanghai was
shut down most of
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april they're actually
going through
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some difficulty ramping
up as well with
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different suppliers the
rumor says so
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yeah it could be a
challenging quarter
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for q2 regarding shanghai
production
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deliveries but in the
long run right
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elon is saying that
tesla's going to
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just print massive
amounts of cash flow
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and that is kind of the
big long-term
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story of tesla i think is
that tesla as
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they grow their revenue
and they
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increase their gross
margins and
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operating margins they're
just going to
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be left with a ton of
operating profit
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and cash flows all of
that operating
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profit and cash flow sure
it would be
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great if they could put
that back into
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the business but they
don't really need
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to because they're so
capital efficient
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they only need to spend
like a few
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billion dollars per
quarter um
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reinvesting into their
factories into
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new factories etc and
they're gonna have
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a lot of cash left over
there's likely
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gonna be a point sometime
in the future
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where tesla is printing
just so much
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cash right they're just
going to
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accumulate who knows what
they're going
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to do with it but under
elon's
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management though i'm
very confident
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that elon will find a way
right to use
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this cash he's not um one
to shy away
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from big opportunities
another bullish
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thing and another reason
why i'm
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actually often missing
hopefully if elon
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remains ceo of tesla yeah
tesla can
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continue to grow and
surprise a lot of
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people i hope this has
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