I’m quite sure you watched this, probably in real time, in 2019 the day it aired. I sure did.
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People around the world were either dismissive or were cheering it on. When he talked about it taking two or three years I laughed out loud, “He’s lost it.” It is all great stuff but no, the world can’t be ready for change that radical.
OTOH, it WAS brilliant. But having been a software developer at an engineering company in the 70s, these ideas were not crazy. More importantly, with an understanding of capital formation, it was clear that money would FLOOD into these ideas.
Here we we are today and Tesla has won the race to autonomy, self driving is real, RoboTaxi is essentially here, every manufacturer jumped feet first into Musk's plans, and there has been NO INNOVATION by any other manufacturer. For six years they have all been chasing Musk.
And now that some are onky a couple years behind, he has run off and left them.
You guys don’t get this. If you want to do politic, do it. But never backburner the leading innovator.
Tesla may lose a couple bucks along the way. But he is years ahead of the Hyundai and Euro followers. China can always knock off tech, but then there is a lot of overhead in depending on Musk or Apple to lead the ways forward.
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