6 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 5 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 4, 2022 by Stephen Lacey · said 36 times in 13 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 32 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- Could Elon Musk’s risky Twitter takeover hurt Tesla?
- Are Biden’s climate ambitions slipping away?
- One weird trick to decarbonize your home
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- Should we eat bugs, farmed fish, or soy?
- Catalyst: Will the bear market hurt clean energy?
- Introducing Drilled: Bridge to Nowhere
- The hidden history of California oil
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Twitter, oldest first
May 4, 2022 bearish
Musk financed Twitter deal with $12.5B in Tesla stock collateral
“Because this deal is being financed by 12 and a half billion dollars of Tesla stock, the banks are holding that stock as collateral for the Twitter deal, and if his shares continue to fall, he has to sell those shares, and if he continues to sell those shares,…”
May 4, 2022 neutral
May 4, 2022 negative
Unlike Jeff Bezos at The Washington Post, Musk courts public controversy
“Bezos, Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, but because of that, you don't really have any more insight into how Jeff Bezos feels about the political issues that the Washington Post covers. He's in the background. I'm sure he has his opinions, but he doesn't…”
May 4, 2022 negative
Feb 15, 2023 negative
May 15, 2024 negative
Tesla Roadster engineers learned of Musk's revised acceleration specs on Twitter
“He decided to Himself without, without telling anyone else that that it's gonna go twice as fast as I said before, so instead of going from zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds, which is very fast, like, think in your mind how long Okay, that was about two seconds, like …”