Now the richest person in the world. Unbelievable.

One of the few of the billionaires that weren't mostly lucky.

I agree getting to one billion wasn't all luck. Getting to $188 billion? Mostly luck.

But it's not like the stock valuation is even close to rational.

Other big tech companies have felt the same.

It can be a thin line between whether they intend to be active or passive with their holdings.

Is Trump back on Twitter yet?

except i think they will. their cars aren't the most reliable (far from it) but they are the most desired. and they partnered with panasonic to make bleeding edge batteries.. that is key.

toyota claims to have solid state batteries coming next year, which looks to be a game changer... but look for tesla to throw a similar ace without warning, as they typically do. solid state is going to rocket propel the electric car industry. 10min charge times, doesn't burn when smashed. lighter and lasts 20 years. they are going to eliminate the need for gas engines. if you think tesla has hit a plateau, no fucking way. they are also leading the auto drive industry, which is the other half of their plan to dominate the car market.

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I agree getting to one billion wasn't all luck. Getting to $188 billion? Mostly luck.

There are modest tax credits for electric vehicle purchases. But I would contend Tesla is winning in somewhat of an Apple model of gaining rabid fanboys and strong internally developed technology. But different from Apple, they are building their own production capacity locally in Cali, China, and Germany for each market.

It is pretty impressive overall.

The biggest threat to Tesla is one of the bigger car companies creates an electric car that you can trust like a normal car as not everyone is going to say "Yeah, this car kind of sucks but it's also awesome".

I think he's protected against that scenario as I expect him to buy Toyota or BMW at some point.

He can't buy all the car companies though and it's going to be a massive drop of Tesla's value if the hypothetical quality electric car starts rolling out to American dealerships.

I am not a Twitter guy so fill me in on Musk's problems with it? He does not want any censorship or ads? No ads does he expect people to subscribe?

Announced he is going to buy Twitter for $43B. Interesting that the initial headline on Bloomberg said "Elon Musk Launches $43 Billion Hostile Takeover of Twitter" and then was changed to "Elon Musk makes $43 billion unsolicited bid to take Twitter private." Funny to see all these idiots getting their panties in a bunch, afraid of what he will do.

Is Trump back on Twitter yet?