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The guy as gone too much MAGA and forgotten that Toyotas et al have also coming up with better models than Tesla. He is all over politics and he is losing bit by bit. TSLA is half its value that a few mos ago. He wants to back out of Twitter - minus $1bil. Too impulsive at business and his age.
He became paranoid like Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-18/musk-says-esg-an-outrageous-scam-after-tesla-index-exclusion?srnd=premium
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I would never trust such a mercurial man with billions of dollars - leave alone my pension plan. Afadhali miti yangu. They have no emotions.
Musk and his ventures is loved by young guns like Robina - who want to play russian roullette with their savings - because they got no responsibilities or kids.Same Musk crew you find them in bitcoins.
You can almost predict how these risky big moves will always end - PREMIUM TEARS after one miscalculation.
Leaving likes of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezo- such emotional stable folks as good safe pair of hands.
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Musk is not a speculator like say Warren Buffet. I don't love his investment ideas or politics, there he sucks. I like his ABILITY to build cutting-edge stuff. SpaceX is way ahead of any competition.. noone has managed to replicate reusable rockets not even the Chinese.
Tesla will stay ahead for years before GMs catch up. If you look carefully at the fundamentals: it's not just elec or batteries that Tesla has unbeatable lead. Or AI self-driving with nextgen chips Nvidia or Intel couldn't hack. It's actually in manufacturing that Tesla is beating VW like isukuti.
Look at Neuralink too - brainchips while Facebook is talking big headsets as everyone will walk around in the Metaverse. Duhh you don't need to be so smart to tell which one has more disruptive potential. Earbuds vs headsets.
Boring company is another good one.
Musk is a builder not a politician or career advisor. Or a shrink. If you are expecting Musk to go broke you will be waiting. Starlink satellites are lighting up the world.. it is expected SpaceX value will skyrocket soon. Dude owns 40% of SpaceX.
About stocks - Facebook, Netflix, etc have slipped 50% in 2022. Tough season. Tesla is worth like 10X VW or Ford. 3X Toyota the biggest auto seller in the world for decades.
Tesla is still the only ever 1T$ auto company in the world.
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Musk is not a speculator like say Warren Buffet. I don't love his investment ideas or politics, there he sucks. I like his ABILITY to build cutting-edge stuff. SpaceX is way ahead of any competition.. noone has managed to replicate reusable rockets not even the Chinese.
Tesla will stay ahead for years before GMs catch up. If you look carefully at the fundamentals: it's not just elec or batteries that Tesla has unbeatable lead. Or AI self-driving with nextgen chips Nvidia or Intel couldn't hack. It's actually in manufacturing that Tesla is beating VW like isukuti.
Look at Neuralink too - brainchips while Facebook is talking big headsets as everyone will walk around in the Metaverse. Duhh you don't need to be so smart to tell which one has more disruptive potential. Earbuds vs headsets.
Boring company is another good one.
Musk is a builder not a politician or career advisor. Or a shrink. If you are expecting Musk to go broke you will be waiting. Starlink satellites are lighting up the world.. it is expected SpaceX value will skyrocket soon. Dude owns 40% of SpaceX.
About stocks - Facebook, Netflix, etc have slipped 50% in 2022. Tough season. Tesla is worth like 10X VW or Ford. 3X Toyota the biggest auto seller in the world for decades.
Tesla is still the only ever 1T$ auto company in the world.
In my opinion, Tesla will hit $500 by year's end, because there is significant competition. Starlink will be killed by 5G, unless they significantly reduce the price. Space X, maybe, but only Robina can afford $20mil. Solar is neutral. He is not focused and the business is slowly sinking. I was looking to get into one Tesla but I changed my mind. Guy has lost focus and is into too much politics. He should have left Twitter alone - like everyone else. If he buys it, it will fail. If he leaves, $1bil is gone. It is a lose lose situation.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-lost-10bn-net-150707047.html
Robina, You need to cash out, or be prepared to lose more. This Guy is too impulsive.
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I cashed out of Tesla, an agonizing decision cause I was a believer and a long term holder but this guy is smoking way too much weed. His volatility is not good for business. How can you support republicans and maga who are still stuck on coal and fossil fuels while your core business is electric cars? The guy is a genius but man, I do not see what he is doing here, maybe he is banking on international growth but in the USA, the infrastructure is already there and the climate change believing dems are his core customers. His Twitter thing is also weird, he has a child like thing about freedom of speech, the cliche “ you can’t scream fire in a theater.” Explains it all, some speech can be deadly, who is to say that? Twitter? I do not know but in this era of misinformation, someone has to step in. If he buys Twitter and turns it into a right wing mind pollution like Fox News, watch how quickly people, banks and companies bail out. He sounds now like Trump junior on coke, horrible for business.
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Only someone with a small brain would invest in these tesla or bitcoin fling,even following whatever elon musk is doing is beyond insanity l...I'd rather plant seed oils or cotton,invest in a small factory,plant trees harvest them and sell firewood n timber rather than do this shit.
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Totally agree with you. There is so much you can do with money than buy Musk and Bitcoins. The same with investing in NSE - the folks who made that mistake are crying in toilet - as NSE index is now worse than in Moi era. These are guys you find very bitter with gov - because their investment is somehow strongly linked with local and global politics and economy. You wake up to find your asset or share tanked.
In kenya it almost non-brainer - invest in real estate. Next invest in gov treasuries...infrastructure bonds can give you 10 percent per annum...beating inflation.
Only someone with a small brain would invest in these tesla or bitcoin fling,even following whatever elon musk is doing is beyond insanity l...I'd rather plant seed oils or cotton,invest in a small factory,plant trees harvest them and sell firewood n timber rather than do this shit.
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Totally agree with you. There is so much you can do with money than buy Musk and Bitcoins. In kenya it almost non-brainer - invest in real estate.
Only someone with a small brain would invest in these tesla or bitcoin fling,even following whatever elon musk is doing is beyond insanity l...I'd rather plant seed oils or cotton,invest in a small factory,plant trees harvest them and sell firewood n timber rather than do this shit.
Not just real estate..even WATER.
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Passive investment - Land, rentals, warehouse - anything land. Then try to invest in passive agri stuff like trees, avacados, even sugar-cane, sisal...any of the permanent crops. Avoid seasonal crops unless you want active investment in agri.
Active investment - if you have the time - then of course do business - if you dont the time, energy and the passion- dont attempt - look for employment and invest in yourself(education).
Not just real estate..even WATER.
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Only someone with a small brain would invest in these tesla or bitcoin fling,even following whatever elon musk is doing is beyond insanity l...I'd rather plant seed oils or cotton,invest in a small factory,plant trees harvest them and sell firewood n timber rather than do this shit.
You hit me right on the balls bro. I still do crypto.
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I cashed out of Tesla, an agonizing decision cause I was a believer and a long term holder but this guy is smoking way too much weed. His volatility is not good for business. How can you support republicans and maga who are still stuck on coal and fossil fuels while your core business is electric cars? The guy is a genius but man, I do not see what he is doing here, maybe he is banking on international growth but in the USA, the infrastructure is already there and the climate change believing dems are his core customers. His Twitter thing is also weird, he has a child like thing about freedom of speech, the cliche “ you can’t scream fire in a theater.” Explains it all, some speech can be deadly, who is to say that? Twitter? I do not know but in this era of misinformation, someone has to step in. If he buys Twitter and turns it into a right wing mind pollution like Fox News, watch how quickly people, banks and companies bail out. He sounds now like Trump junior on coke, horrible for business.
Am predicting Tesla will be $400-$500/share and then remain so for a while to come. Down from $1100/share in january.
Musk is too erratic.
He killed it.
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it already near 500; how do you explain it rise from 100 in 2020; apart from irrational exuberance; That thing will drop to less than 100. It make no sense unless you listen to Robina yadayada about tech. End of the day it's a fany car.
Am predicting Tesla will be $400-$500/share and then remain so for a while to come. Down from $1100/share in january.
Musk is too erratic.
He killed it.
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Only someone with a small brain would invest in these tesla or bitcoin fling,even following whatever elon musk is doing is beyond insanity l...I'd rather plant seed oils or cotton,invest in a small factory,plant trees harvest them and sell firewood n timber rather than do this shit.
You hit me right on the balls bro. I still do crypto.
vooke?
Which crypto currency do you trade?
How much have you invested?
How much do you make per Day?
Table evidence.I don't like stories.
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Passive investment - Land, rentals, warehouse - anything land. Then try to invest in passive agri stuff like trees, avacados, even sugar-cane, sisal...any of the permanent crops. Avoid seasonal crops unless you want active investment in agri.
Active investment - if you have the time - then of course do business - if you dont the time, energy and the passion- dont attempt - look for employment and invest in yourself(education).
Not just real estate..even WATER.
Rentals are very good investment for stolen money,retirmement or inheritance because they are capital intensive.Buy a in Nairobi maybe Rudi for 5MN,Build 6 2BR units for 10MN That is 15MN already..Hire them at 15K monthly each with 50% occupancy monthly income is 45 k..it would take 30 years to get ROI..I think I'd rather build a godown for 3MN..Hire it for 50K monthly to SMEs like bakery or processors..sink a borehole next to it and have two water bowser that which would give 100k net monthly.
As for seasonal crops,As long as you are doing drought resistant grains and cereals.you are good to go.The rule is very simple.
1) Own the land
2) Have a water pan/borehole..harvest WATER.
3) own trucks to transport to market.
4) Process.
There will soon be oversupply of avocado.Id rather do mangoes oranges bananas.
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Yes rental are only good if you want to park the money.
10yr treasury bond of 10 million can give you 1.2m each year - 15m - can give you 1.5M - or almost 120K per month. So it better to invest in those infrastructure bonds. Zero overheads. Zero headache with tenants. Most are tax free. You get paid every six or 1yr for 10yrs.
Agree on warehouse - and commercial building - rather than residential rental. Commercial building will earn you more - you dont have to provide toilets and name it in every unit.
Agree on providing water - and such services
Seasonal crops - unless you're quiting your job - that like raising cattle or chicken - or tea - time requirement!!
Best bet - plant permanent low maintenance crops that you harvest for three months every year - that you can take leave and manage the harvesting - then go back to your day job
Of course high maturing trees are the best - zero maintanance - great returns.
All in all - first nail your day to day - either in job or business - that can give you money to live day to day comfortably.
Only then - can you start investing.
Rentals are very good investment for stolen money,retirmement or inheritance because they are capital intensive.Buy a in Nairobi maybe Rudi for 5MN,Build 6 2BR units for 10MN That is 15MN already..Hire them at 15K monthly each with 50% occupancy monthly income is 45 k..it would take 30 years to get ROI..I think I'd rather build a godown for 3MN..Hire it for 50K monthly to SMEs like bakery or processors..sink a borehole next to it and have two water bowser that which would give 100k net monthly.
As for seasonal crops,As long as you are doing drought resistant grains and cereals.you are good to go.The rule is very simple.
1) Own the land
2) Have a water pan/borehole..harvest WATER.
3) own trucks to transport to market.
4) Process.
There will soon be oversupply of avocado.Id rather do mangoes oranges bananas.
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Passive investment - Land, rentals, warehouse - anything land. Then try to invest in passive agri stuff like trees, avacados, even sugar-cane, sisal...any of the permanent crops. Avoid seasonal crops unless you want active investment in agri.
Active investment - if you have the time - then of course do business - if you dont the time, energy and the passion- dont attempt - look for employment and invest in yourself(education).
Not just real estate..even WATER.
Rentals are very good investment for stolen money,retirmement or inheritance because they are capital intensive.Buy a in Nairobi maybe Rudi for 5MN,Build 6 2BR units for 10MN That is 15MN already..Hire them at 15K monthly each with 50% occupancy monthly income is 45 k..it would take 30 years to get ROI..I think I'd rather build a godown for 3MN..Hire it for 50K monthly to SMEs like bakery or processors..sink a borehole next to it and have two water bowser that which would give 100k net monthly.
As for seasonal crops,As long as you are doing drought resistant grains and cereals.you are good to go.The rule is very simple.
1) Own the land
2) Have a water pan/borehole..harvest WATER.
3) own trucks to transport to market.
4) Process.
There will soon be oversupply of avocado.Id rather do mangoes oranges bananas.
I dont do much, maybe $200/month. Money I can afford to lose. I do Doge, ether, Shib
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We warned people that Elon was a fraud. A mentally unstable fool. A Kanye west of corporate world. He has left many holding the bag
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The millennial's are about to be taken through life session's of investment - bitcoins and Elon musk easy come easy go - is not investment - it's gambling.
We warned people that Elon was a fraud. A mentally unstable fool. A Kanye west of corporate world. He has left many holding the bag
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We warned people that Elon was a fraud. A mentally unstable fool. A Kanye west of corporate world. He has left many holding the bag
Will Twitter take the $1bil if he backs out?
Am not sure the deal will go thru
Maybe Thiel will rescue Musk.
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The millennial's are about to be taken through life session's of investment - bitcoins and Elon musk easy come easy go - is not investment - it's gambling.
We warned people that Elon was a fraud. A mentally unstable fool. A Kanye west of corporate world. He has left many holding the bag
The millennial's are about to be taken through life session's of investment - bitcoins and Elon musk easy come easy go - is not investment - it's gambling.
We warned people that Elon was a fraud. A mentally unstable fool. A Kanye west of corporate world. He has left many holding the bag
Crypto has a place, but nobody knows where to place it. It will take time.
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Elon is a FULL TRUMP.
Why could he annouce a 10% job cut in a EV boom economy?
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Georgesoros so when is Musk going bankrupt? He is still 80B clear of the closest runner-up Jeff Bezos.
WATCH THIS SPACE:
1. Tesla will rise to 2T+ as EVs take root globally
2. SpaceX will rise as it is increasing nobody can compete
3. Neuralink will dominate the "metaverse" and beat FBs
This not bitcoin but solid stuff.
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Georgesoros so when is Musk going bankrupt? He is still 80B clear of the closest runner-up Jeff Bezos.
WATCH THIS SPACE:
1. Tesla will rise to 2T+ as EVs take root globally
2. SpaceX will rise as it is increasing nobody can compete
3. Neuralink will dominate the "metaverse" and beat FBs
This not bitcoin but solid stuff.
Robina
In my opinion Tesla has peaked. Competitors like Hyundai have created similar tech at a cheaper cost. Also, Mercecedez came up with a 779mile EV - beating Teslas model S. He went into politics and forgot the golden rule - never openly campaign, so he is losing his base. Space X may save him.
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Musk is so federal they cant touch him. Just likeTrump .
Touch him and he switches side to Russia and you have Nuclear weapons being stationed in space. Something which was being seen as futurestic 20 years ago.
Governments need crazy people like Musk to advance their technologies. He is doing well and they are satisfied with him.
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Told ya Robina, lots of people deceided not to buy Tesla brand. Musk killed it.
He should shut his mandibles.
Stay out of politics
https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/07/06/tesla-stock-quivers-on-weak-q2-delivery-numbers/?sh=719b766d2b97
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He is such a dog!!!
Didnt even know he had grown kids.
He has stopped tweeting lately.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-had-twins-last-032809300.html
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Ok, on investing, most of you here post old-school philosophy. Which I agree with - safe stuff for conservative investment
Crytos & tech - invest early in startups or IPO. Tesla was <10$ 2010-13 so it doesn't matter whether it is 100$ or 1k$ now you are ever on top. BTC was 10$ 2010-12.. now fluctuates 20-60k. Dogecoin is still 0$ you can buy it right now - with disposable cash. Not kid's tuition or pension.
It is not gambling when you invest next to nothing. 1k or 5k usd. Then potentially get 1m$ in a few years.
But if you can only spot Tesla or Apple or Uber - TODAY - obviously it is too late and stupid to buy them.
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So Georgesoros - don't buy Tesla today :) - it was good 10 years ago. Buy dogecoin, and wait for 2 years.
Buy Twitter now. Duhhhh. It is suck at 40$ since 2013 IPO - thanks to poor leadership. Musk is crazy, imaginative has BIG potential to skyrocket it. Obviously it is a risk - put in 5k$ or such.
You can keep the tree farm and make smart gamble at the same time.
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So Georgesoros - don't buy Tesla today :) - it was good 10 years ago. Buy dogecoin, and wait for 2 years.
Buy Twitter now. Duhhhh. It is suck at 40$ since 2013 IPO - thanks to poor leadership. Musk is crazy, imaginative has BIG potential to skyrocket it. Obviously it is a risk - put in 5k$ or such.
With DoGE am still doing it. Its for the long term - 5,10,15yrs or so.
Twitter - NO!
You can keep the tree farm and make smart gamble at the same time.
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LoL mafala
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How are mafala doing?
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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musks-76-old-dad-203015062.html
Runs in the family
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they are saying Musk has a warchest for the twitter bout.. of course it nonsense. I think the drama is to excite the market - i already picked some twitter shares.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/elon-musk-sells-7point92-million-tesla-shares-worth-6point88-billion.html
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they are saying Musk has a warchest for the twitter bout.. of course it nonsense. I think the drama is to excite the market - i already picked some twitter shares.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/elon-musk-sells-7point92-million-tesla-shares-worth-6point88-billion.html
Good for you!
I see Twitter has stabilized and has gone up significantly.
Meanwhile, he has stopped his shenanigans. His dad must have told him to stop. :):)
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Govt intervenes in Twitter.
National security at issue.
Musk is a national security threat and should be managed.
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Tesla has lost half of its value since november 2021 to November 2022. $400 to $191.
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We warned people that Elon was a fraud. A mentally unstable fool. A Kanye west of corporate world. He has left many holding the bag
Will Twitter take the $1bil if he backs out?
Am not sure the deal will go thru
Maybe Thiel will rescue Musk.
MUSK has gone full racist. It is clear on twitter.
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How is he racist now? Him, not the users?
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How is he racist now? Him, not the users?
By providing a national platform for racists to spread evil, is Trump a racist??
SAme thing Musk is doing.
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Tesla will go from $150/share to $100/share in a very short time.
Other EVs have emerged.
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Telsa is overrated.
Tesla will go from $150/share to $100/share in a very short time.
Other EVs have emerged.
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Tesla will go from $150/share to $100/share in a very short time.
Other EVs have emerged.
Looks like its going down faster than I thought.
Will Tesla survive $50???
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How can someone being funded directly by Federal Reserve go bankrupt. That SpaceX now owns NASA.
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Not sure why Tesla down almost 20% today.
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Tesla cars quality is garbage. This stock will end up going down another 50%
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The millennials are getting ripped apart and schooled like some of us did in 2000 dotcom crash.
The crypto + Tesla are same whatsapp group. PUMP and DUMP. PONZI.
Yes even at 100 - it still way over-valued. Toyota is valued at 190B. Telsa real value should be below 50B. The current value of 350 - means it still waaaay overvalued.
Tesla cars quality is garbage. This stock will end up going down another 50%
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This thread was very short-sighted.. you really do the real George Soros a disfavor :)
Jewish oligarchs are real. Dirty Zionist pigs but solid thrifters.
Grok is having ChatGPT and Bard for breakfast, lunch & dinner. No contest. It comes down to access to data:
X as global town-hall is more real-time
Bard has mountains of search data and obviously 🙂 Gmail conversations
ChatGPT has Bing search but a mere subset of Google data
The question is who has the BEST DATA. Grok wins hands down
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Telsa is overrated.
Tesla will go from $150/share to $100/share in a very short time.
Other EVs have emerged.
Tesla & BYD will chew the market
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He has recently started using heavy drugs.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/video/elon-musks-drug-causing-turmoil-155951308.html
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He has recently started using heavy drugs.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/video/elon-musks-drug-causing-turmoil-155951308.html
Nothing new. Musk is openly bipolar and has been self- medicating with weed and ecstasy for years. Investors only care about his OUTPUT - sobriety, morality or being 'clean' and such piety are pointless.
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@Georgesoros you should read Musk autobiography by Walter Isaacson... and see real stunts the dude does:
https://nipate.online/index.php?topic=16028.0
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=elon+musk+isaacson&adgrpid=152354034862&hvadid=678745895463&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=1009825&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=8055645616611851418&hvtargid=kwd-1522611200764&hydadcr=27990_14727866&tag=hydglogoo-20&ref=pd_sl_5hh5jerd8f_e
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SpaceX launched every 4 days in 2023
https://www.tekedia.com/spacex-sets-new-record-and-unveils-starlink-satellite-phone-future/
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SpaceX's new direct-to-cell Starlink satellites relay their 1st text messages
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-direct-to-cell-first-text-messages
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SpaceX's new direct-to-cell Starlink satellites relay their 1st text messages
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-direct-to-cell-first-text-messages
SpaceX will disrupt telco - and eat Verizon and Vodafone/Safaricom lunch
In meantime its value has skyrocketed
SpaceX valuation climbs to $180 billion
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/13/spacex-value-climbs-to-180-billion-higher-than-boeing-verizon.html
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SpaceX's new direct-to-cell Starlink satellites relay their 1st text messages
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-direct-to-cell-first-text-messages
SpaceX will disrupt telco - and eat Vodafone and Safaricom lunch
In meantime its value has skyrocketed
SpaceX valuation climbs to $180 billion
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/13/spacex-value-climbs-to-180-billion-higher-than-boeing-verizon.html
The company is one of the most valuable private companies in the world, classifying it as a "centicorn" or “hectocorn” — a $1 billion unicorn, 100 times over.
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Dogecoin price will skyrocket as Musk plans to launch Xpayments. I went hoarse urging a certain genius here to go for dogecoin instead of trees that need 20 years to mature. Ironically the local charlatan would critique old books and print media as "pressed trees" - all the while racking up log-ferrying 30-wheelers :)
Dogecoin (DOGE) Price Goes Green as Elon Musk's Xpayments Nears Launch
https://u.today/dogecoin-doge-price-goes-green-as-elon-musks-xpayments-nears-launch
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SEC approves Bitcoin ETF's - soon you might be able to buy btc at the local forex bureau
Why Satoshi Nakamoto is smiling at BlackRock’s embrace of Bitcoin
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/01/20/why-satoshi-nakamoto-is-smiling-at-blackrocks-embrace-of-bitcoin/
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Meantime German autos are thrushing last kicks as BYD and Tesla eat their lunch. My own contention for years has been Tesla will eat Germany's lunch - while China BYD, Xpeng, NIO eat Japan's lunch. This is largely the case - except China models seem to permeate Europe not just cheap third world.
Kenya and Africa watch out - Toyota, Nissan, Chevrolet, etc - GASOLINE DINOSAURS - will be kicked as mostly China EVs take over.
German auto suppliers struggle as Chinese EV makers like Tesla-beating BYD rise: ‘Who is the winner and who is the loser is changing’
https://fortune.com/2024/01/21/tesla-beating-byd-chinese-ev-makers-german-auto-suppliers/
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SpaceX angling for internet business woe unto the slaggards
Starlink Maritime resellers offering 2 months free 5 TB service
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlin-maritime-free-5-tb-offer/
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Elon Musk promised Tesla’s very own ‘ChatGPT moment’ with full self-drive technology—now owners may be weeks away from finding out if he can finally deliver
https://fortune.com/2024/01/23/elon-musk-tesla-fsdbeta-v12-chatgpt-moment-ai/
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Elon Musk promised Tesla’s very own ‘ChatGPT moment’ with full self-drive technology—now owners may be weeks away from finding out if he can finally deliver
https://fortune.com/2024/01/23/elon-musk-tesla-fsdbeta-v12-chatgpt-moment-ai/
Of course Tesla Autopilot "ChatGPT moment" is nonsense. On this FSD Musk really sells air. Computer vision (CV) has empirically not hit milestone akin to Natural Language Processing (NLP).
NLP hit big milestone when transformers appeared in 2017. Open AI GPT, Google BERT, Facebook Llama, Baidu ERNIE - all these large language models (LLMs) were enabled by the discovery of transformers a few years ago. Speech and language tech leapfrogged.
But then you have Vision Transformers (ViT) - which significantly improved RNNs for video processing. But not enough for a leapfrog.
There are 2 paths in self-driving research now -
1. Google Waymo uses LiDAR plus cameras - which is great but costly hardware. LiDAR is able to beat bad weather like mist or snow - which even 4k cameras cannot. But LiDAR is expensive and cannot scale - cause you have LiDAR installed on each car - so selling to auto market won't cut it.
Additionally Waymo uses HD Maps - which of course are software - scalable - and Google of course has hitech maps of every corner on the globe. The con of maps is you have to train the CV models on every locality - which makes HD Maps sort of unscalable or hard-coded.
So unscalable LiDAR plus semi-scalable HD Maps - Waymo operates real robotaxis only in Phoenix-Arizona, SF Bay Area and I think Albuquerque-New Mexico. But they have very few accidents.. which is much better than Tesla.
2. Tesla uses only cameras - which are way cheaper than LiDAR - plus they don't use HD Maps. In short Autopilot is pure computer vision - which is very scalable - just cameras and software which is pushable over-the-air. They have deep neural networks which train continuously from every Tesla car on the roads.
Autopilot is perfectly scalable pure software - BUT without the benefit of LiDAR and HD Maps. Tesla cars crash ovyo ovyo in misty or such unforeseeable traffic happenings.
Tesla "FSD Beta v14" - is basically Level 2 autonomy - which is just glide smoothly on freeway - but bonk furiously at every junction or snow or town for driver to take over. If there is fallen tree on the road... or broken down truck - driver must take over or the car parks on roadside 😀😂
Basically Musk promise of "ChatGPT moment" is hot air. Nothing big has happened in computer vision to leapfrog like NLP as far as I know.
Yeah - self-driving "ChatGPT moment" is way off. And will only come when RESEARCHERS come up with a transformer equivalent for computer vision.
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Tesla Autopilot is Level 2 autonomy but cheap. Google Waymo is Level 4 I think... but unscalable and costly.
In short you cannot draw analogy from ChatGPT and other LLMs - which are pure software running on clouds. It will equally take a while for ChatGPT to be available off-the-shelf on ear buds - cause you need the mega-processing power of cloud.
Google AI crew are scratching their heads to release MobileNetV4 with Bard or ChatGPT power. Ngumu - MobileNet is optimized (or "quantized") for handsets which have no GCP or Azure power. ChatGPT runs on 800 petaflops 👀👀 - impossible on mobile.
Maybe Musk has a bridge to sell.
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This thread was very short-sighted.. you really do the real George Soros a disfavor :)
Jewish oligarchs are real. Dirty Zionist pigs but solid thrifters.
Grok is having ChatGPT and Bard for breakfast, lunch & dinner. No contest. It comes down to access to data:
X as global town-hall is more real-time
Bard has mountains of search data and obviously 🙂 Gmail conversations
ChatGPT has Bing search but a mere subset of Google data
The question is who has the BEST DATA. Grok wins hands down
xAI is worth $20B wants to raise $6B new capital. So far raised only $135m
OpenAI is worth $86B wants to raise $8B. So far raised $13B from Microsoft
Elon Musk’s AI start-up seeks to raise $6bn from investors to challenge OpenAI
Jan 26, 2024
https://www.ft.com/content/28983bdc-2a38-4103-beae-08d9542ab69d
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I couldn't find information about Grok having economic potential. However, ChatGPT and similar AI models have vast potential for economic impact. They can revolutionize industries like customer service, data analysis, and content creation. For more information, you might want to try searching online, as I didn't find specific data on Grok.
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier
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If RV Punda the local charlatan had a working braincell, he'd have retained his AI startup for a few years as AI peaks. At least sell out abit later like OpenAI. Look at the meteoric rise of Nvidia into Trillion-dollar club of five: Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia.
Meta and Berkshire Hathaway are within striking distance:- Meta has some skin in the game with FB, IG, WhatsApp data - and their AI team has Torch, PyTorch, AngularJS, etc - notable AI platforms. And of course Llama LLM which is serious ChatGTP and Bard rival.
Berkshire Hathaway has some significant stake in BYD... which is running circles around Tesla in China, APAC and Europe. And soon BYD will take over Africa and Global South. Because they have cracked battery tech and are vertically integrated with a chokehold on global battery supply chain.. which enable them to clobber Tesla on price.
Yeah - Berkshire is near Trillion-dollar club cause stake in BYD, Apple.
But how come Tesla is worth 7- or 10X as much as BYD?
Well, BYD may be able to mint cheap EVs by owning the battery-auto supply chain. But Tesla has Energy game too - with mega-packs feeding the grid in California, Texas, Australia, etc - which feed the Tesla superchargers for their EVs and even Ford or Uber EVs - complete with home- installable "power-walls" or solar panels. Tesla with EVs, superchargers, grid-supplying megapacks and the panels - is in fact a "smart grid" or IoT ecosystem.
Hold on. Musk has Twitter/X data and xAI with just Grok LLM for now. Tesla is also working on Optimus - a humanoid robot. It will improve rather quickly with vision capabilities from Autopilot and language capabilities from xAI.
Hold on. SpaceX Starlink has global constellation of LEO satellites. Which connects all that stuff globally.
Hold on. Neuralink just released "Telepathy" brain-chip. The objective is a pluggable earbud that can connect humans, swines, gadgets, cars, robots, homes, etc to the SkyNet grid.
Did I mention the Boring Company? A "Road OS" tunnel network under the city.
So the kicker is that "Tesla Mobile" - the near-future Musk has been selling of Level 5 cars on Uber-esque network - is buoyed by the smart IoT ecosystem - a complete circle that noone else can muster without big multi-company partnerships.
This justifies the Tesla 5- or 10X vs Toyota or VW or BYD valuation. And the Regular RV Pundit or Georgesoros cannot see beyond their nose. So they insist that Tesla is "waayyy overlued". Do you really think the market is that stupid?
Tesla seems to be struggling with Autopilot or get outpriced by BYD. But personally I foresee it hitting 1, 2- 3Trillion-dollar club. If it doesn't go private soon.
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Grok is in alpha release and only available to X premium subscribers. Premium is only a dollar you can get on there and see for yourself.
And why do you need analysis on Grok. It is the same as GPT, Bard or other LLMs. Same business model.
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Here https://nipate.online/index.php?topic=12443.60 - Musk is building SkyNet the dystopian "Singularity" in scifi.
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His 56bil package was thrown out by the judge.
Like Trump am sure he will appeal all the way to Supremacy
Does this mean he loses his ultra wealth?
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His 56bil package was thrown out by the judge.
Like Trump am sure he will appeal all the way to Supremacy
Does this mean he loses his ultra wealth?
Dots & crosses. Musk is major shareholder of Tesla, SpaceX etc - it's robbing the right hand with the left.
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Georgesoros Musk has the best performance metric ever: market cap of the company!
Most CEOs are paid to deliver revenues - which of course is suboptimal. Cause you can mint revenues with skeletal margins so zero profits or dismal market share or market cap. Market cap is the ultimate metric to measure performance.
If I am chairman of Vodacom or Safaricom - I will give Tusker dwarf market cap target of $20B and give him all the powers or support he needs - expand abroad, buy startups, launch new stuff, hire foreigners or consultants, increase salaries and the shebang.
All that matters is market cap. The market is smart.
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His 56bil package was thrown out by the judge.
Like Trump am sure he will appeal all the way to Supremacy
Does this mean he loses his ultra wealth?
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The man is a narcisist - "mirror mirror on the wall, who is better than me"?? Every morning.
Investors want return on onvestment, and if all money goes to CEO then what is the point.??
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The man is a narcisist - "mirror mirror on the wall, who is better than me"?? Every morning.
Investors want return on onvestment, and if all money goes to CEO then what is the point.??
Musk EARNED that money. In 2019 Tesla was worth $50B with $20B revenues and zero profit. The target was $200B value, $50B revenue, with a positive margin. He blew all the targets.
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That dimwitted shareholder should be ashamed of himself. What is the suit about if not cheap publicity.
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Country by robot density ie how digitized or automated is the economy.
(https://ifr.org/downloads/press2018/graph_-_Robot_Density_2022_by_country.png)
Clearly —
•China at no 4 outflanks the world considering its massive population. Friendshoring or de-risking by Western companies is nonsense - I don't see any Western "friend" (Vietnam, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Mexico) in the list. (Note Hong Kong, Taiwan are also top 10).
•US barely makes top 10 obviously can't beat China soon.
•Germany still top 3 - debunks "de-industrialization" as false trend; the recession is seasonal hiccup from suicidally sanctioning Russia and China.
•India is nowhere to be found -- nowhere near top 20, and that continues to tell me "India rising" or "Make in India" is far-fetched.
•None of the "Global South" cracks top 20... not even Brazil 😬🤔👀 - (in geoeconomics we don't consider India, Russia, China, Turkey, etc as South but as Emerging Markets).
•Russia is MIA .. this "resource empire" with Saudi continue to rely on oil & gas and have barely divested. Putin, MBS need to work smarter.
•UK, France, Aussies are conspicuously MIA despite constantly throwing their weights around.
https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/global-robotics-race-korea-singapore-and-germany-in-the-lead
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Google is spoiling for war 👀
Google debuts subscription Gemini AI bot, as Microsoft rivalry heats up
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-debuts-subscription-gemini-ai-bot-as-microsoft-rivalry-heats-up-130006991.html
An important point is that Google Bard (now Gemini) is only an LLM or chatbot without vision features. It is also poorly integrated with their search engine.
Unlike Microsoft Bing search engine strong integration with both OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E which makes Bing a wholesome AI experience including visual or image generation.
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Google vs Microsoft...
the former is better for mobile use, and in corollary has more retail audience and consumer products. But in gaming and AI this grip is loosening, peeling away to Microsoft, Meta, AWS. AI developers, for instance, have to contend with the poor architecture of Keras AI platform being haphazardly overlaid on TensorFlow. I often run into the headache of calling Keras via TensorFlow or directly through its own API.
These critcisms are many in Geekdom... StackOverflow, GitHub, Kaggle (this last which Google owns 🙂), etc.
Naturally, I think, Google should soon buy Unity or Unreal... or one of the other popular gaming platforms - as their answer to Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Their desperation is nauseating.
Strategically, I see Sundar Pichai as a jarhead drone COO-type ala Tim Cook or Satya Nadella, great at logistics but poor at innovation. This is disappointing because Gates is still power behind the throne , can't say the same for Larry Page, Sergey Brin.
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Google’s and Microsoft’s chatbots are making up Super Bowl stats
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/11/googles-and-microsofts-chatbots-are-making-up-super-bowl-stats/
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Andrej Karpathy leaves OpenAI. I won't be surprised if he shows up at xAI working on Grok.
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More "ooh tunaonewa" whining... the US has the most permissive, protective policies on Big Tech - compared to the EU, China, Russia, India, Africa or everyone else.
Musk decries US government censorship
17 Feb, 2024 01:13 / Updated 54 minutes ago
The billionaire has claimed to be under “relentless attacks” for allowing free speech on his social media platform
Musk, who heads several other companies, has previously claimed that he’s at “quite significant” risk of being killed. His father, Errol Musk, said in an interview last September that he feared his son could be assassinated by a “shadow government” because of the influence he wields.
https://www.rt.com/news/592575-elon-musk-us-government-censorship/
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Worldcoin soars 140% in a week as wallet app hits 1M daily users
https://cointelegraph.com/news/worldcoin-price-soars-wallet-world-app-openai-sam-altman-sora
Empirically, cryptos will rise organically rather than the Bitcoin rough & tumble, as a quorum of veteran investors and entrepreneurs embrace it.
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His 56bil package was thrown out by the judge.
Like Trump am sure he will appeal all the way to Supremacy
Does this mean he loses his ultra wealth?
@Georgesoros I make the prediction half-awake that Elon Musk will/would win the 56B suit on appeal. Why?
1. "Conflict of interest"
Musk was not on the board when the deal was discussed. He had been stripped by the SEC over some other lunacy. Musk was and remains a legal employee of the company and entitled to negotiated benefits. If the board was incompetent or shortchanged that is not Musk's problem. But were they?
2. Public or "shareholder interest"
This is so objectively overblown by that Delaware court. A shareholder's interest is growth in value of their investment. Tesla value has risen from 50B to at least 500B. Musk compensation is a fraction of the gains - what "interest" is the litigant talking about?
3. Delaware interest
Majority of the vaunted Big Tech and many companies register in Delaware for the legal wiggle room it allows in corporate taxes, JVs, etc. This court decision is chopping the nose to spite the face. I don't need to check to know how many phone calls Delaware AG and politicians have made persuading Tesla and other companies not to bolt the state.
4. I am half as sleepy now - something about irreversible damage. The shareholder should have obtained a stay immediately the 56B deal was done. Musk already spent the cash to buy Twitter. 🙂. Most importantly, Musk already delivered his part of the deal -
[snoring]
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A challenger to Tesla Optimus humanoid robot. Figure AI is backed by Amazon which wants to sustain dominance in robotics. Also by Microsoft and OpenAI.
Figure AI to Raise $675 Million for Human-Like Robots
(https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Figure-AI-robotics-funding.jpg?w=457)
https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2024/report-figure-ai-to-raise-675-million-for-human-like-robots/
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A challenger to Tesla Optimus humanoid robot. Figure AI is backed by Amazon which wants to sustain dominance in robotics. Also by Microsoft and OpenAI.
Figure AI to Raise $675 Million for Human-Like Robots
(https://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Figure-AI-robotics-funding.jpg?w=457)
https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2024/report-figure-ai-to-raise-675-million-for-human-like-robots/
Jeff Bezos and Nvidia join OpenAI and Microsoft in backing a humanoid robot unicorn valued at $2 billion, sources say
https://fortune.com/2024/02/23/jeff-bezos-nvidia-openai-microsoft-robot-unicorn-figureai-funding-round/
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Satoshi Nakamoto is worth $51B
https://news.bitcoin.com/satoshi-nakamotos-growing-fortune-nears-entry-into-worlds-top-25-richest-individuals/
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Nice try Elon, almost does count here.
SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket into space on epic 3rd test flight
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-third-test-flight-launch
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Don Lemon fails to know which side of his bread is butter.
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Nice try Elon, almost does count here.
SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket into space on epic 3rd test flight
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-third-test-flight-launch
Starship is revolutionary, 100X better over present rockets.
After Thursday’s flight, Starship is already the most revolutionary rocket ever built
But even with those caveats, Starship is already the most revolutionary rocket ever built. Because of a relentless focus on costs and cheap building materials, such as stainless steel, SpaceX can likely build and launch a fully expendable version of Starship for about $100 million. Most of that money is in the booster, with its 33 engines. So once Super Heavy becomes reusable, you can probably cut manufacturing costs down to about $30 million per launch.
This means that, within a year or so, SpaceX will have a rocket that costs about $30 million and lifts 100 to 150 metric tons to low-Earth orbit.
Bluntly, this is absurd.
For fun, we could compare that to some existing rockets. NASA's Space Launch System, for example, can lift up to 95 tons to low-Earth orbit. That's nearly as much as Starship. But it costs $2.2 billion per launch, plus additional ground systems fees. So it's almost a factor of 100 times more expensive for less throw weight. Also, the SLS rocket can fly once per year at most.
Then there's the European Space Agency's Vega rocket. Its costs are roughly on par with a Starship that has a reusable first stage. For $37 million, with Vega, you get about 1.5 metric tons to low-Earth orbit. Again, that's a factor of 100 times less payload than Starship.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/thursdays-starship-flight-provided-a-glimpse-into-a-future-of-abundant-access-to-space/
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His 56bil package was thrown out by the judge.
Like Trump am sure he will appeal all the way to Supremacy
Does this mean he loses his ultra wealth?
@Georgesoros I make the prediction half-awake that Elon Musk will/would win the 56B suit on appeal. Why?
1. "Conflict of interest"
Musk was not on the board when the deal was discussed. He had been stripped by the SEC over some other lunacy. Musk was and remains a legal employee of the company and entitled to negotiated benefits. If the board was incompetent or shortchanged that is not Musk's problem. But were they?
2. Public or "shareholder interest"
This is so objectively overblown by that Delaware court. A shareholder's interest is growth in value of their investment. Tesla value has risen from 50B to at least 500B. Musk compensation is a fraction of the gains - what "interest" is the litigant talking about?
3. Delaware interest
Majority of the vaunted Big Tech and many companies register in Delaware for the legal wiggle room it allows in corporate taxes, JVs, etc. This court decision is chopping the nose to spite the face. I don't need to check to know how many phone calls Delaware AG and politicians have made persuading Tesla and other companies not to bolt the state.
4. I am half as sleepy now - something about irreversible damage. The shareholder should have obtained a stay immediately the 56B deal was done. Musk already spent the cash to buy Twitter. 🙂. Most importantly, Musk already delivered his part of the deal -
[snoring]
Told you this is economic suicide attempt for Delaware
Tesla investors are flooding judge who threw out Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package with complaints about winning lawyers’ request for $6bn in company stock
“Respectfully, I believe that this judgement is dangerous and misguided, extremely shareholder-hostile and sets a new precedent that will now mark Delaware going forward as being the state with the most business unfriendly environment,†Blake wrote.
Musk has encouraged other businesses to follow his lead and move to reincorporate outside Delaware, the corporate home to almost 70% of Fortune 500 companies.
https://fortune.com/2024/03/13/tesla-investors-flooding-judge-threw-out-elon-musk-56bn-pay-package-complaints-winning-lawyers-demand-6bn-stock/
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Ranking by users not # of billions of parameters
Claude takes the top spot in AI chatbot ranking — finally knocking GPT-4 down to second place
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/claude-takes-the-top-spot-in-ai-chatbot-ranking-finally-knocking-gpt-4-down-to-second-place
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🙂 It's raining AI jobs
Zuckerberg calling Google employees, asking them to work for Facebook instead https://futurism.com/the-byte/zuckerberg-emailing-google-employees
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Quadriplegic uses Neuralink implant to play video game with his mind
(https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2024/03/26/screenshot-2024-03-26-153027-1711467034969.png?crop=16%3A9&width=775)
https://www.ign.com/articles/first-human-patient-to-receive-a-neuralink-brain-implant-used-it-to-stay-up-all-night-playing-civilization-6
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If RV Punda the local charlatan had a working braincell, he'd have retained his AI startup for a few years as AI peaks. At least sell out abit later like OpenAI. Look at the meteoric rise of Nvidia into Trillion-dollar club of five: Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia.
Meta and Berkshire Hathaway are within striking distance:- Meta has some skin in the game with FB, IG, WhatsApp data - and their AI team has Torch, PyTorch, AngularJS, etc - notable AI platforms. And of course Llama LLM which is serious ChatGTP and Bard rival.
Berkshire Hathaway has some significant stake in BYD... which is running circles around Tesla in China, APAC and Europe. And soon BYD will take over Africa and Global South. Because they have cracked battery tech and are vertically integrated with a chokehold on global battery supply chain.. which enable them to clobber Tesla on price.
Yeah - Berkshire is near Trillion-dollar club cause stake in BYD, Apple.
But how come Tesla is worth 7- or 10X as much as BYD?
Well, BYD may be able to mint cheap EVs by owning the battery-auto supply chain. But Tesla has Energy game too - with mega-packs feeding the grid in California, Texas, Australia, etc - which feed the Tesla superchargers for their EVs and even Ford or Uber EVs - complete with home- installable "power-walls" or solar panels. Tesla with EVs, superchargers, grid-supplying megapacks and the panels - is in fact a "smart grid" or IoT ecosystem.
Hold on. Musk has Twitter/X data and xAI with just Grok LLM for now. Tesla is also working on Optimus - a humanoid robot. It will improve rather quickly with vision capabilities from Autopilot and language capabilities from xAI.
Hold on. SpaceX Starlink has global constellation of LEO satellites. Which connects all that stuff globally.
Hold on. Neuralink just released "Telepathy" brain-chip. The objective is a pluggable earbud that can connect humans, swines, gadgets, cars, robots, homes, etc to the SkyNet grid.
Did I mention the Boring Company? A "Road OS" tunnel network under the city.
So the kicker is that "Tesla Mobile" - the near-future Musk has been selling of Level 5 cars on Uber-esque network - is buoyed by the smart IoT ecosystem - a complete circle that noone else can muster without big multi-company partnerships.
This justifies the Tesla 5- or 10X vs Toyota or VW or BYD valuation. And the Regular RV Pundit or Georgesoros cannot see beyond their nose. So they insist that Tesla is "waayyy overlued". Do you really think the market is that stupid?
Tesla seems to be struggling with Autopilot or get outpriced by BYD. But personally I foresee it hitting 1, 2- 3Trillion-dollar club. If it doesn't go private soon.
Tesla is in deeeep trouble - according to Wall Street. Ha!
FREE ADVICE - WHEN TESLA HITS $150 BUY!!! It will course- correct soon after once the mist clears. Cause ecosystem.
You get it right? Starship just hit all the milestones for pre-flight. And will soon skyrocket - and unlock capital and goodwill to escalate Starlink. Which will mean more HD map data for Autopilot,...
When the "Tesla Mobile" network effect kicks in Tesla will be neck and neck with Nvidia and Microsoft. Tesla is in AI, robotics, energy game with everyone - except as unbeatable vertical integration. Awesome synergy and symbiosis. But some analysts think it's behind the curve... 👀🤔
'As negative as we have seen in the last few years': Why a number of Wall Street analysts are souring on Tesla
Filip De Mott Mar 29, 2024, 5:06 PM GMT+3
Tesla's full self-driving could add $40 per share, Bernstein said, but noted that the pricing would be competed away, as Tesla is not alone in pursuing FSD. The company is already behind in robotics, AI, and the robotaxi service.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tesla-stock-outlook-downgrades-elon-musk-growth-deliveries-price-cuts-2024-3
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I'ma pick up some Tesla stock at $150 - and hold long-term. Currently at $167.
Tesla shares fall after deliveries drop 8.5% from a year ago
KEY POINTS
•Tesla reported first-quarter vehicle deliveries of 386,810, a drop of 8.5% from the same quarter last year.
•According to a mean of 11 estimates compiled by FactSet, analysts were expecting deliveries of around 457,000 for the first three months of the year.
•This was Tesla’s first year-over-year decline in deliveries since 2020, when its operations were disrupted by the global pandemic.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/02/tesla-tsla-q1-2024-vehicle-delivery-and-production-numbers.html
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SpaceX mulling tender offer at $200 billion valuation
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spacex-mulling-tender-offer-200-220934351.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAASJUTmg_e2qjUtEs0GNdWFLXdCPtHNrLnzXcBlNp9ubRqRYAD7bDJ1y-1kJT62OxNLPnoZZhthSV4U9TCHEcbXQuZuTZDM38gWlkwJMIgC0K2tNCDy323QojxvONrQMZWmtT6V7JJeRRYTPCfVNwO7GZaXqfAd5KKm-j9JTR0Fd
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Elon Musk confirms his threat: give me 25% of Tesla or you don’t get AI and robotics
https://electrek.co/2024/05/20/elon-musk-confirms-threat-give-me-25-of-tesla-or-no-ai-robotics/
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:o Tesla replacing layoffs with robotics team in readiness for robotaxi rollout in August. Of course it's moronic nonsense - no magic can leapfrog Autopilot from L2 to 4 or 5 which is what they need for robotaxi. I expect it to be postponed - as it's typical investor signaling: Look, we are focused on autonomy or Optimus.
Tesla Mobile will only take off when L4 or 5 is cracked - which will not respect Musk's hubris unless he partners with serious researchers. I mean noticeable balance-sheet reallocation to Autopilot-Optimus R&D. This is actually harder nut than Starship - which is pure engineering. Self-driving needs SCIENCE not just throw super-chips and HD maps at the problem.
I suspect Musk is finally getting it. With this new Autopilot & Robotics department seem full of scientists.
Tesla looks to rebuild Autopilot, self-driving, robotics departments after layoffs
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-autopilot-self-driving-robotics-rehire/#:~:text=News-,Tesla%20looks%20to%20rebuild%20Autopilot%2C%20self,driving%2C%20robotics%20departments%20after%20layoffs&text=Tesla%20is%20looking%20to%20add,its%20short%2Dterm%20business%20planning.
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Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to fund its race against ChatGPT and all the rest
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https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/27/24165619/elon-musk-xai-startup-6-billion-funding
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Hackers steal $305M from DMM Bitcoin crypto exchange
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/31/hackers-steal-305-million-from-dmm-bitcoin-crypto-exchange/
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Starship takeoff and landing seem almost complete
Starship survives reentry to splash down in the Indian Ocean after successful fourth flight test
https://www.engadget.com/starship-survives-reentry-to-splash-down-in-the-indian-ocean-after-successful-fourth-flight-test-142912013.html
(https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2024-06/536b7cb0-240e-11ef-bd27-acfcc3772832)
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Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package
https://www.investopedia.com/tesla-shareholders-approve-elon-musk-usd56b-pay-package-8663296
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$843m to pull down ISS
NASA selects SpaceX to build deorbit vehicle for International Space Station
https://www.space.com/nasa-spacex-international-space-station-deorbit-vehicle
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SpaceX valued at $210B, becomes most valuable aerospace company
https://x.com/charliebilello/status/1806459220910629070
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-valued-210b-most-valuable-aerospace-company/#google_vignette
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FREE ADVICE - WHEN TESLA HITS $150 BUY!!! It will course- correct soon after once the mist clears. Cause ecosystem.
Tesla headed back to 1T+ territory. Investors don't buy the August 8 robotaxi launch - maybe Aug 2025. But they dig the Tesla Mobile superpower which is unbeatable.
Tesla continues stratospheric run as FSD, AI take main focus
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-tsla-continues-stratospheric-run-as-fsd-ai-take-main-focus/
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China's on the money not to rely on US tech.. with painful Android experience. After Beidou (GPS alternative) now Thousand Sails for Starlink optional.
China begins launching a megaconstellation, and it sounds a lot like Starlink
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/china-deploys-first-satellites-for-a-broadband-network-to-rival-starlink/
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Tesla’s all-electric ‘Giga Train’ in Germany takes first trip
https://www.teslarati.com/teslas-all-electric-giga-train-in-germany-takes-first-trip/
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Boeing seems to be completely useless... no wonder SpaceX is worth way more now
Boeing rockets built by inexperienced workers – NASA
https://www.rt.com/news/602394-boeing-nasa-rocket-delay/
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Uber CEO shares his doubts on Tesla’s robotaxi plans
Khosrowshahi also goes on to highlight the extra platforms that companies have to create to accommodate things that can go wrong in a ride-sharing vehicle, from people getting sick and wanting to pay with cash to those losing items in their ride-share, accidents, and more.
https://www.teslarati.com/uber-ceo-doubts-teslas-robotaxi-plans/
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Boeing Starliner has turned out to be junk - as we long suspected - it returned tonight without the crew.. they were too scared cause safe landing is not guaranteed. SpaceX is now the effective monopoly. Blue Origin and EU's Arianespace are equally hopeless. With Russia crashed by sanctions China is the only worthy competitor to SpaceX.
After another Boeing letdown, NASA isn’t ready to buy more Starliner missions
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/after-another-boeing-letdown-nasa-isnt-ready-to-buy-more-starliner-missions/
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Blue Origin is as hopeless aa Boeing
Faced with a tight deadline, NASA and Blue Origin agree to delay New Glenn debut
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/new-glenns-debut-will-slip-into-november-as-nasa-decides-to-not-fuel-escapade/
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Uber CEO shares his doubts on Tesla’s robotaxi plans
Khosrowshahi also goes on to highlight the extra platforms that companies have to create to accommodate things that can go wrong in a ride-sharing vehicle, from people getting sick and wanting to pay with cash to those losing items in their ride-share, accidents, and more.
https://www.teslarati.com/uber-ceo-doubts-teslas-robotaxi-plans/
cant even build a functional self drive
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Uber CEO shares his doubts on Tesla’s robotaxi plans
Khosrowshahi also goes on to highlight the extra platforms that companies have to create to accommodate things that can go wrong in a ride-sharing vehicle, from people getting sick and wanting to pay with cash to those losing items in their ride-share, accidents, and more.
https://www.teslarati.com/uber-ceo-doubts-teslas-robotaxi-plans/
cant even build a functional self drive
Self-drive is hard nut noone has cracked. It will take proper research. Musk has the key ingredients to crack it
1. Tesla fleet of computers on wheels milling real-time track miles every nano-second
2. Starlink satellite HD maps
3. X (Twitter) realtime human data
4. xAI experimenting with AI models, etc
That's lots of synergy. But yes the Tesla Autopilot "Full Self-Driving" is a pure mirage at present. Noone has cracked it - we are still at Level 2 of 5 8) At least Musk has now restructured the Tesla balancesheet (finally! took him so long it baffles me) and turned real focus to robotics & AI. Because the EV battery is long cracked with everyone using Tesla superchargers all over the US and Europe.
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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1836112116626940288
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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1836112116626940288
Bina
bring heaven to you?
Strange
Your musk is a certified luna, only that stops commitment to psych unit is money.
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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1836112116626940288
Bina
bring heaven to you?
Strange
Your musk is a certified luna, only that stops commitment to psych unit is money.
All proper geniuses are loonies
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Starlink Aviation to be available on 2,500 aircraft & counting
https://www.teslarati.com/starlin-aviation-2500-aircraft-fleet/
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OpenAI Raises $6.6 Bln In Funding With $157 Bln Valuatio
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/openai-raises-66-bln-funding-157-bln-valuation
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I prefer Rocket Lab.
Musk is a horrible h
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I prefer Rocket Lab.
Musk is a horrible h
5B usd.. None of these rocket companies are going anywhere. Without China SpaceX is effectively a monopoly.
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Rocket ni ngumu... unlike EVs. Sets apart the wheat from the chaff.
Do you actually know NASA are discussing internally if to change their policy and single-source Artemis to SpaceX. Noone else can crack it.
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'Godfather of AI' wins Nobel Prize for work in machine learning
https://qz.com/ai-geoffrey-hinton-john-hopfield-machine-learning-nobel-1851667556
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Meta meteoric rise to $1.5T almost kicking Amazon
Zuckerberg Just Became The Second Richest Person In The World
https://www.forexfactory.com/news/1307822-mark-zuckerberg-just-became-the-second-richest-person
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Heading to Tesla event tomorrow
(https://www.teslarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/tesla-robotaxi-tickets-sawyer-merritt.jpg)
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100 year old Boeing back tp raising capital - not for expansion but to fix string of failures. At this rate they should focus on planes and leave rockets to the real kahunas
Boeing wants to raise $19 billion as it faces delivery delays and worker stoppages
https://qz.com/boeing-wants-to-raise-19-billion-as-it-faces-delivery-1851682729
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Robotaxis turning into 3-horse race among Tesla, Waymo, Uber
Waymo Secures $5.6 Billion in Funding to Expand Robotaxi Services
https://ciolook.com/waymo-secures-5-6-billion-in-funding-to-expand-robotaxi-services/
Money raised and spent at Waymo tops $25bn
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/waymo-gets-another-5-6bn-2024-10/
Who will win the robotaxi race? Tesla, Waymo, or Uber?
https://africa.businessinsider.com/transportation/who-will-win-the-robotaxi-race-tesla-waymo-or-uber/f4n2sh7
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Robotaxis turning into 3-horse race among Tesla, Waymo, Uber
Waymo Secures $5.6 Billion in Funding to Expand Robotaxi Services
https://ciolook.com/waymo-secures-5-6-billion-in-funding-to-expand-robotaxi-services/
Money raised and spent at Waymo tops $25bn
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/waymo-gets-another-5-6bn-2024-10/
Who will win the robotaxi race? Tesla, Waymo, or Uber?
https://africa.businessinsider.com/transportation/who-will-win-the-robotaxi-race-tesla-waymo-or-uber/f4n2sh7
Musk only showed a concept of a car to be built right???
Just like the overated Tesla truck am ye to see anythign.
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Robotaxis turning into 3-horse race among Tesla, Waymo, Uber
Waymo Secures $5.6 Billion in Funding to Expand Robotaxi Services
https://ciolook.com/waymo-secures-5-6-billion-in-funding-to-expand-robotaxi-services/
Money raised and spent at Waymo tops $25bn
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/waymo-gets-another-5-6bn-2024-10/
Who will win the robotaxi race? Tesla, Waymo, or Uber?
https://africa.businessinsider.com/transportation/who-will-win-the-robotaxi-race-tesla-waymo-or-uber/f4n2sh7
Musk only showed a concept of a car to be built right???
Just like the overated Tesla truck am ye to see anythign.
Tesla Autopilot is taking the hard but scalable approach - using cameras only.
Waymo, Uber are using easy but expensive LiDAR - quicker but unscalable.
The investors know this and value them appropriately.
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Bezos in talks to acquire Boeing's space division
https://econotimes.com/Boeing-Considers-Exiting-Space-Weighs-Sale-of-Division-to-Jeff-Bezos-Blue-Origin-1692096
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Musk’s AI startup xAI eyes $40bn valuation in new funding
https://www.mobileworldlive.com/ai-cloud/musks-xai-eyes-new-funding-round/
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Tesla hits $1 trillion market cap as stock rallies after Trump win
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/08/tesla-hits-1-trillion-market-cap-as-stock-rallies-after-trump-win.html
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Tesla hits $1.3T. SpaceX $350B
Musk at $420B
Seem Apple might hit $4T soon. Presently at 3.7. I think it's overrated.
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Tesla hits $1.3T. SpaceX $350B
Musk at $420B
Seem Apple might hit $4T soon. Presently at 3.7. I think it's overrated.
In the meantime, load PEPE. ELON has been tweeting stuff and behaving like he did with DOGE when it was $0.0017 a while back. PEPE is currently at $0.000024. In 2026-2029, it may crest around .085 and at worst $.0085 with ups and downs before then enough to allow you to recoup capital and massive profits. $800-900 investment now can net anyone OVER 3 million bucks in under 10 years. As always, holding forever is the smart strategy while spending. 2-5 minutes daily doing risk management!
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Tesla hits $1.3T. SpaceX $350B
Musk at $420B
Seem Apple might hit $4T soon. Presently at 3.7. I think it's overrated.
In the meantime, load PEPE. ELON has been tweeting stuff and behaving like he did with DOGE when it was $0.0017 a while back. PEPE is currently at $0.000024. In 2026-2029, it may crest around .085 and at worst $.0085 with ups and downs before then enough to allow you to recoup capital and massive profits. $800-900 investment now can net anyone OVER 3 million bucks in under 10 years. As always, holding forever is the smart strategy while spending. 2-5 minutes daily doing risk management!
Yes it generally good to throw in $1k disposable income at such memecoins. Dogecoin has grown 176X last few years. I have made a small fortune.
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Will OpenAI survive? Zuckerberg and Musk want to kill it
Meta asks the government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/13/24320880/meta-california-ag-letter-openai-non-profit-elon-musk
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Tesla hits $1.3T. SpaceX $350B
Musk at $420B
Seem Apple might hit $4T soon. Presently at 3.7. I think it's overrated.
In the meantime, load PEPE. ELON has been tweeting stuff and behaving like he did with DOGE when it was $0.0017 a while back. PEPE is currently at $0.000024. In 2026-2029, it may crest around .085 and at worst $.0085 with ups and downs before then enough to allow you to recoup capital and massive profits. $800-900 investment now can net anyone OVER 3 million bucks in under 10 years. As always, holding forever is the smart strategy while spending. 2-5 minutes daily doing risk management!
Yes it generally good to throw in $1k disposable income at such memecoins. Dogecoin has grown 176X last few years. I have made a small fortune.
Looking to see what my 22 billion PEPEs will do in 2031. Will hold through thick and thin; even if I see 200K profits, I won't cash it!
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New Glenn launch aborts... pushed to Wednesday
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin calls off its New Glenn rocket's maiden voyage over technical issues
https://qz.com/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket-launch-spacex-1851737910
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Tesla has 44% of US EV marketshare. And leads in China.
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-model-y-top-us-ev-sales-2024-cox-automotive/
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Tesla has 44% of US EV marketshare. And leads in China.
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-model-y-top-us-ev-sales-2024-cox-automotive/
Tesla has a long way to go. Musk joined MAGA and killed tesla. MAGA only believes in BIG ICE trucks.
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Tesla has 44% of US EV marketshare. And leads in China.
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-model-y-top-us-ev-sales-2024-cox-automotive/
Tesla has a long way to go. Musk joined MAGA and killed tesla. MAGA only believes in BIG ICE trucks.
You need to separate politics from business. The latter is driven by technology and being MAGA or woke will not launch any rocket or fix self-driving challenges.
BYD is neither woke nor MAGA but is giving Tesla a run for its money everywhere ex-US.
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New Glenn finally launches... after 24 years
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Here Bina,
Impending Disaster
Musk promises Gold but deliverer fake Gold.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-is-offering-new-cybertruck-discounts-is-there-a-demand-problem-164038579.html
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SpaceX lost the Starship on 7th flight test. Seems we are a long way from Mars colony.
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-completes-second-catch-lower-stage-loses-starship/
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Here Bina,
Impending Disaster
Musk promises Gold but deliverer fake Gold.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-is-offering-new-cybertruck-discounts-is-there-a-demand-problem-164038579.html
Top models are Model 3, X and Y. Not Cybertruck. Tesla 44% marketshare has actually shrunk from 50% in 2022. That's what they have to watch out for. With LA crazy fires, Florida hurricanes, snowstorms - you can bet EVs are here to stay despite whatever MAGA nonsense Trump spews. With Musk nee influence expect the Biden EV subsidy to continue or even possibly increase.
How can Tesla lose - at 44% US EV marketshare?
Consider so far US is trailing at 16% EV adoption. EU is 23%. China 50% of new car sales are EV or hybrids. This adoption will grow rapidly in the next few years - meaning your GM or Ford or VW shares will torpedo unless they up their EV game and beat Tesla and BYD. I won't hold my breath. Nissan and other Japanese dinosaurs are merging or shutting down.
Whoever will crack the self-driving game first will win big. The frontrunners are Tesla and the Chinese players BYD, Xiaomi, Xpeng, etc. The guys who can't nail EV batteries equally cannot hack self-driving complex robotics.
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Mostly I expect only Tesla and other auto STARTUPS like Lumina, Rivian, Zoox, etc will survive the EV dog-fight. It seems quite hard for the ICE (gasoline) manufacturers to pivot to software from the decades-old hardware assembly.
That is why GM, Ford, Audi, VW, BMW, Toyota, etc are worth 5 or 10% of Tesla despite selling 10 millions of cars compared to Tesla 2 million. Investors are not idiots and know these are dinosaurs unable to adapt to new software-driven smart car reality.
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MAGA killed the auto industry by constantly railing against EVs. China went ahead and produced $30k cars and now they are the world leaders. This is the same thing that happened in 2006, when Humvee was the truck of the day. After Gas prices skyrocketed, they died. This time MAGA is advocating for ICE while consumers are focused on EVs. MAGA can restrict Chinese EVs all they want but soon they will flood the mkt with $30k cars while GM is busy with their $80k Humvees.
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MAGA killed the auto industry by constantly railing against EVs. China went ahead and produced $30k cars and now they are the world leaders. This is the same thing that happened in 2006, when Humvee was the truck of the day. After Gas prices skyrocketed, they died. This time MAGA is advocating for ICE while consumers are focused on EVs. MAGA can restrict Chinese EVs all they want but soon they will flood the mkt with $30k cars while GM is busy with their $80k Humvees.
You are right Chinese EVs will flood the world except US because they have been heavily sanctioned with 100% tariffs and now entirely banned. Expect prices to remain high and the US to drag down the world in EV adoption.
Tesla Model 3 is still $45K effectively, if you include any meaningful add-ons like Autopilot. Chevy Equinox is 35K. Nissan Leaf is 28K but is about to go bankrupt at that price point. Basically it's not possible for US auto to sell below 40K profitably.
BYD Seagull of course is $10K but has been banned not to kill US auto. 👀
EU has imposed 40% tariff to keep off China but they need 100% like US to survive.
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I expect Trump to sell out MAGA and continue Biden EV subsidy just as he has done with H1B. That was campaign he is rational.
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Trump should read this and cry - after his $500B "AI infra" showoff
Global tech shares fall as China AI chatbot DeepSeek spooks investors
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/27/tech-shares-asia-europe-fall-china-ai-deepseek
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Nvidia has lost $450B today - after Chinese startup DeepSeek beat OpenAI, Google and FB models. With meagre $6m and despite US chip ban
Nvidia plummets 13% to lead global tech sell-off as China's DeepSeek raises questions about AI chip spending
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/nvidia-falls-10percent-in-premarket-trading-as-chinas-deepseek-triggers-global-tech-sell-off.html
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The US will soon about turn the hype on AI fad just like EVs.
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In other news:
Ethan Hunt has stopped SkyNet from destroying the world in Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning. https://g.co/kgs/bM1oyUX
Paris Saint Germain have crushed Inter Milan 5-0 to win the UEFA Champions League. https://g.co/kgs/s9uzPbQ
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Issabout to go down.
Is Trump's threat to cut the teat an end to Musk's tax funded lucky streak.
How can someone being funded directly by Federal Reserve go bankrupt. That SpaceX now owns NASA.
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Musk has been grumbling about activist judges and shareholders. This seemed aimed at both but it's a long shot; judge could still void it. Even if it passes that legal hurdle it only pumps Musk shares to 16%. He's been pushing for 25% or he walks. Many investors seem to take the threat seriously after xAI unleashed Grok and acquired Twitter.
Tesla hands $29B comp package to Elon Musk amid ‘AI talent war’
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/tesla-hands-29b-comp-package-to-elon-musk-amid-ai-talent-war/
https://publish.twitter.com/?url=#
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New Glenn finally launches... after 24 years
Starship test succeeds at 10th try... they have burnt through a few B's to get this gagantuan goofy machine running. We are a long way from Mars.
https://publish.twitter.com/?url=
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10-year kpi
-increase market cap from today's 1.1T to 8.5T by 2035 (tough)
-raise EBITDA from 50B 17B to 400B (toughest) --corrected $50B to $17B 2024 EBITDA
-sell 20m cars by 2035 (easiest)
-sell 10m Autopilot subscriptions
-deploy 1m robotaxis
-deploy 1m humanoid robots
-develop CEO succession plan.. basically hire his replacement (meh)
Reward
-29% shares from 12% today. 36m shares worth $900B
-2018 $56B award was revised to $29B after legal troubles in Delaware
Elon Musk Could Become First Trillionaire Under New Tesla Pay Plan
Sept. 5, 2025 Updated 1:04 p.m. ET
According to the compensation plan, Mr. Musk would be eligible to receive 35 million shares if Tesla’s Wall Street value hit $2 trillion. He would receive additional shares if Tesla’s value increased until it reached $8.5 trillion. The plan is structured so that Mr. Musk would profit from gains in the share price only from $334, the closing price on Wednesday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/business/elon-musk-tesla-pay-trillionaire.html
https://publish.twitter.com/?url=
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10-year kpi
Musk’s $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises
Sean O'Kane 7:02 AM PDT · September 6, 2025
(https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Bot_83.jpg?resize=768,581)
Image Credits:Tesla
Taken as a whole, it’s a complex agreement with lots of truly pie-in-the-sky ideas about where Tesla could go under Musk’s leadership over the next decade. The same was said about the previous compensation deal that Tesla struck with Musk back in 2018, and yet the company hit all of those seemingly-outrageous goals. (Musk’s award was ultimately dusted by Delaware’s Chancery Court.)
Still, it’s hard not to notice just how much these new goals appear to come from the company trying to drag its CEO’s promises back down to Earth.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/06/musks-1t-pay-package-is-full-of-watered-down-versions-of-his-own-broken-promises/
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LangChain hits unicorn
Open source agentic startup LangChain hits $1.25B valuation
Posted: 3:12 PM PDT · October 21, 2025
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/open-source-agentic-startup-langchain-hits-1-25b-valuation/
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Seems Musk will become trillionaire from SpaceX and xAI... before Tesla
Elon Musk Just Became The First Person Ever Worth $600 Billion
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/12/15/elon-musk-just-became-the-first-person-ever-worth-600-billion/
So they re claiming SpaceX $1.5T IPO is next year. Musk owns 42%.
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SpaceX and xAI merge to build data centers in space
xAI joins SpaceX to Accelerate Humanity’s Future
February 2, 2026
Posted by Elon Musk
https://www.spacex.com/updates
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SpaceX and xAI merge to build data centers in space
xAI joins SpaceX to Accelerate Humanity’s Future
February 2, 2026
Posted by Elon Musk
https://www.spacex.com/updates
SkyNet taking shape
[size=12]No One Realizes What Elon Musk Just Created[/size]
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Meta ordered to pay $375 million in New Mexico trial over child exploitation, user safety claims
https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/jury-orders-meta-to-pay-375-million-in-new-mexico-lawsuit-over-child-sexual-exploitation-user-safety-4578658
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Tesla EV sales "underwhelming" as Elon Musk pivots to AI
Nathan Bomey | 12 hours ago - Business
Tesla's first-quarter deliveries — a close proxy for sales — totaled 358,023.
That was up 6% from the same period a year earlier, when the company was dealing with a sales backlash from Musk's leadership of President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.
But the performance marked an "underwhelming start" to the year, missing consensus estimates of 370,000, Wedbush Securities analyst and Tesla bull Dan Ives wrote in a research note.
The tally fell short of expectations despite a rush of last-minute purchases of the Model S sedan and Model X crossover, which are being discontinued.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/02/tesla-ev-elon-musk-gas-prices
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Longtimer - at least he is a hardware guy, unlike Cook who was a salesman.
Apple is really lagging on AI so let us see.
Apple CEO Tim Cook stepping down, to be succeeded by John Ternus
Daniel Howley · Technology Editor
Updated Tue, April 21, 2026 at 12:51 AM GMT+3 3 min read
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-stepping-down-to-be-succeeded-by-john-ternus-204237479.html
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Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid
April 21, 2026 - 8:57 am
In summary: Meta has hired five founding members of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup built by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, after she rejected a reported $1 billion acquisition offer. The most expensive individual hire, co-founder Andrew Tulloch, reportedly received a $1.5 billion package over six years. The talent raid is part of a broader AI restructuring that includes the $14.3 billion Scale AI investment, Alexandr Wang’s appointment as chief AI officer, Yann LeCun’s departure after 12 years, 600 FAIR research cuts, and the creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs, whose first closed-source model, Muse Spark, launched on 8 April.
https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-thinking-machines-lab-talent-raid
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my Llama models, Gazebo- ROS-ish apps are a nightmare. The darth of relying on these offshore techs!
Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 8:00 AM PDT · May 1, 2026
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/01/ubuntu-services-hit-by-outages-after-ddos-attack/
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Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
Marina Temkin · 4:07 PM PDT · April 30, 2026
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/anthropic-potential-900b-valuation-round-could-happen-within-two-weeks/
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SpaceX Board has set a Mars bonus for Elon Musk
Published 4 days ago on April 28, 2026 By Gene
The pay package will reportedly award Musk 200 million super-voting restricted shares if the company hits a market valuation milestone, with the most ambitious targets going further. To unlock the full award, SpaceX would need to reach a $7.5 trillion valuation and help establish a permanent human settlement on Mars with at least one million residents. Additional incentives are tied to developing space-based computing infrastructure capable of delivering at least 100 terawatts of processing power.
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-elon-musk-compensation-bonus-colonize-mars/
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Overarching goal remains to make Earthlings a multiplanetary species. Musk must settle 1m folks in self-sustaining Mars city to get fat bonus of 1B shares. Build factories to produce materials and construction equipment, bla bla. Mine comets and meteors for 'rare' space minerals.
But this is presently derailed by other lofty objectives:
•launch 1m satellites to offer unlimited global internet 3.0 (including satellite telcoms - which is threatening big telcos and is being contested by AT&T, Verizon, Globalstar) and host orbital data centers (this is being contested at the FCC by Blue Origin as orbital hoarding, especially the vast spectrums needed)
•produce 100TW per year (presumably beamable to earth not just for the orbital data centers or factories)
•Artemis 3 & 4: build human landing system (HLS) for NASA's moon mission by 2028 (SpaceX already has a $2.9B contract for this, and $1.15B for Starship lander)
•new $1.25B per month deal to provide Anthropic with Colossus 1 & 2 compute June 2026 through May 2029
It basically seems SpaceX core R&D to #OccupyMars continues with Starship. While Falcon, Starlink and xAI bring the revenues.
The SpaceX IPO filing is filled with AI bets, Starship dreams, and Elon Musk at the center
Sean O'Kane
Kirsten Korosec
4:03 PM PDT · May 20, 2026
But the company is, of course, making a lot of astronomical promises in the filing. One of the biggest? That it has “identified the largest actionable total addressable market in human history” of $28.5 trillion. The company attributes an enormous portion of that — $22.7 trillion — to “enterprise applications” of AI.
Total control
Make no mistake, this is Elon Musk’s company. Per the filing, Musk will be the CEO, CTO, and chairman of the SpaceX board after the IPO.
The S-1 shows he owns 93.6% of SpaceX’s Class B stock, which comes with 10 votes per share. Musk is therefore currently sitting on 85.1% of the voting power at SpaceX. That number is expected to drop following the IPO but will stay above 50%, allowing SpaceX to dodge certain rules about having independent directors on its board.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/the-spacex-ipo-filing-ai-bets-starship-dreams-elon-musk/
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AI labs are Big Tech now. Anthropic revenue is $30B and OpenAI is $25B.
Anthropic’s $300M Stainless deal lands hardest on OpenAI and Google
Anthropic's acquisition of Stainless shuts down a shared SDK generator used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, reshaping AI developer tooling.
May 23rd, 2026 10:00am by Janakiram MSV
https://thenewstack.io/anthropic-stainless-sdk-acquisition/
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IPOs are usually pumped in the beginning then pigs are slaughtered then wall street whales start accumulating from the first few days after the epic scam. If you are rookie in the market, don't touch IPOs the first few days unless you are a skilled scalper. SPCX since it starts with 2 trillion market cap maybe a different story, but I suspect retail and rookies will be robbed right away, but long term it will pay. Key is catching the bottom after it flatlines! Also, June 4 is the start of abolishing of $25000 requirement and PDT rule, so millions of people will be coming to market and may jolt the market in a different way. Market may behave differently, so caution, if you are newbie should be exercised. I think changing the rule will go down as only one best thing coming out of Trump administration. If they can work on Naked shorting and rampant fraud and open stock market to 24 hour trading, it will be the best thing since sliced bread. God bless US stock market- The greatest wealth generator machine ever built!
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Anthropic proposes a global slowdown of AI development
https://www.engadget.com/2188066/anthropic-proposes-global-ai-development-slowdown
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Elon Musk is worth $1.1T on paper after SpaceX IPO.
https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/
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With Starfall, SpaceX eyes an edge in global cargo delivery from orbit
Stephen Clark – Jun 23, 2026 8:25 AM | 154 💬
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Artist's illustration of a Starfall reentry vehicle separating from a satellite in low-Earth orbit. SpaceX's Starship is in the background. Credit: SpaceX
From here to anywhere
Most of what we know about Starfall comes from the FAA’s environmental assessment. In that document, the FAA writes that Starfall will “enable point-to-point delivery of critical cargo through space on rapid timelines” and provide access to space for commercial in-space manufacturing, a nascent market that, so far, is largely geared toward pharmaceuticals. Starfall could bring those materials back to Earth for commercial use. A private company named Varda Space Industries is already working in this area.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/with-starfall-spacex-eyes-an-edge-in-global-cargo-delivery-from-orbit/
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Seems to double down on AI & robotics
Jeff Bezos’ family office backed five AI startups in June
Published Thu, Jul 2 20268:30 AM EDTUpdated Thu, Jul 2 20269:29 AM EDT
Hayley Cuccinello
@in/hayleycuccinello/
@HCuccinello
Key Points
Last month, Jeff Bezos’ namesake investment firm made five direct investments in startups, accounting for 10% of all such deals by family offices that month, per Fintrx.
Bezos Expeditions participated in five megarounds, including a $12 billion Series B for Prometheus, the physical AI startup that counts Bezos as a cofounder and co-CEO.
The Amazon founder has doubled down on capital-intensive AI startups, brushing off concerns of an AI bubble.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/jeff-bezos-family-office-backed-five-ai-startups-in-june.html
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Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/blue-origin-reportedly-raising-10b-at-130b-valuation/
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Starship 13 successfully splashes onto the Indian Ocean
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Lock up period is coming up soon, so if you still have SPCX shares better hit that sell button before Wall Street Wales dump millions of shares tanking it to the ground. Elon's lock up period is still months away, so entry after upcoming sell off will pay months to weeks before Elon's lock up period end. If it tanks below $60, may be time to scale because it will be pumped back to $200 by next year!
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Starship 14 launch window is 28-31 this month
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Cookie stuffing: the affiliate fraud tactic behind Phoebe Gates’ Phia scandal
https://eciks.org/21123-cookie-stuffing-affiliate-fraud-phia
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Trump has imposed 100% tariff on Chinese drones and robots but we still see dust. 👀
The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
Kate Park | 7:34 PM PDT · August 30, 2026
China dominates global humanoid robot manufacturing, with global shipments hitting 22,000 units in the first half of this year — the vast majority from Chinese manufacturers — according to a report by Counterpoint. U.S. companies, by contrast, are operating at a far smaller scale, said Soumen Mandal, a principal analyst at Counterpoint Research.
The world’s five largest humanoid robot makers by shipments — AgiBot, Unitree, Galbot, UBTECH and Leju Robotics — were all Chinese and together accounted for 86% of global shipments in the first half of 2026, according to Counterpoint.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/30/the-u-s-is-building-barriers-around-drones-and-robots-china-still-has-scale/
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Uber Ends Operations in Nigeria After 12 Years
https://www.techinafrica.com/uber-ends-operations-in-nigeria-after-12-years/
Uber footprint now in 68 countries