Conversation

Replying to
12) To a large extent, Tesla is about the person behind the company. Tesla is a bet on . It's a bet that the same person who defied the auto industry and came out winning--and now looks poised to do that in space--will keep winning.
3
42
13) A bet that the man whose shitposts took on shortsellers and the SEC; whose speeches pitted him against MBAs and regulators; whose public pot puffing belies a fanatical obsession with his products-- that he will keep thinking big. And that when builds, he delivers.
1
35
14) Which brings us full circle, sort of. Eventually Tesla's biggest product might be cars, but right now it's not. Right now Tesla's biggest product is TSLA, which is possibly the world's most popular investment vehicle. Sort of like BRK.
1
33
15) Because to some extent the world knows the potential of thinking big. Tesla may not be the Facebook of cars yet, but TSLA is the Facebook of stocks.
1
37
16) As an aside: is raising right now. If can get an allocation: a) FTX will list SpaceX stock for customers across the world b) We'll donate 95% of gains to the world's most effective charities, and 5% to the Dogecoin foundation
24
397
17) So anyway: I don't want to overgeneralize too much here, but roughly speaking: If you build a product used by 1B people, that's worth a fortune. And how do you do that? I don't know, I've never done it before! But you have to identify something 1B people *could* use.
1
39
18) And then you have to build it. And then you have to find your 999,999,999 closest friends and get them to use it too.
1
47
19) This post started off about having huge impact on the world. And donating a fortune is one way, but it's not the only way. And in fact it's not the most common way. You *do* need to do something that touches 1B people, though, somehow.
1
27
21) Generally, you can try to identify the most important things in the world, and try to maximize your impact on them. Some of those people are famous. Many aren't, and might never be. The people I respect most in the world often aren't, because that's not their goal.
2
36