Elon Musk

“Last week, I did a post on Tesla, a story in pictures, which was kind of a brutal and cruel assessment of everything you're going on at Tesla, including, by the way, a chart on CEO compensation that shows how much Elon Musk gets paid for a loss-making enterpri…”

“So whether it's Paul Tudor Jones or it's Elon Musk, Either and or both of those types of folks' participation in this asset class and on a very public level provides an unbelievable amount of air cover for more folks to participate in the space as well.”

“And then I think Elon, there's really a dynamic around Tesla's purchase, where if you were your typical board a few months ago, you were saying, do we really need to consider Bitcoin? This seems like a fringe dynamic. When Elon buys, it becomes, why aren't we …”

“I think Steve Jobs was born. I don't think you can study to become Steve Jobs. I would say the same about Elon Musk. But that said, I do not believe that charisma is digital. I don't believe that you either have it or you don't. Because I've seen enough people…”

“Elon Musk, who I think, or the last time I looked, Ted, was personally worth more than ExxonMobil. I think he had two hundred and thirty billion dollars.”

“And you forget Tesla's now taken off in such an incredible way, but you forget there were moments there when it was really his genius and fortitude that kept that company alive and let it go on and thrive.”

“And Elon put out his infamous tweet around four, 20 funding secured. Then he called the bankers, which was slightly out of order.”

“Patrick said the phrase that he would use to describe their personality is not driven by It's not ambitious. It's tortured. They wake up every morning tortured that they are not more successful, bigger, richer than they are. And I think that's true for virtual…”

“The greatest product that Elon Musk has ever made is not a Tesla car. It's not a SpaceX rocket. It's Tesla stock. It's the ticker TSLA. Because what he has done is he has told a more effective story about what Tesla might become in the future than maybe any ot…”

“Very often, he can even monopolize the expertise in a certain field because there's no other meaningful company trying to do something that meaningful in that field.”

“But I assure you that the narratives that are swirling on Elon Musk, particularly the favorable ones, would not be swirling and would not be of the character that they are if he weren't one of the wealthiest people in the world. That price has driven the stock…”

“When we first bought Tesla at the end of 2019 and 20 20, when the EV S curve really took off because Elon got the price Of the model three down to 40,000. And then we saw they had very good competitive advantages. We said, wow, they can do two million cars at …”