Andy Halliday

And you can see that if it hadn't been for a number of allies and and institutional investors who were afraid that possibly disappointing Musk would reduce the probabilities of a high stock value for Tesla.

you could have gotten very close to 45% and losing the package.

Now, I personally think that he has plenty of incentive in his 15% stake.

And I think it's a little outrageous to dilute the rest of the company and the rest of the employees

all the stakeholders by giving himself yet another huge tranche of stock here.

Anyway, I mean, what does he need really economically?

What does he really need at this point?

But it hasn't been granted yet, right?

There's all these milestones that have to be achieved, but eventually he would have, setting aside further dilution, he would eventually have more than the 15% shareholding he has now by something on the order of value of a trillion dollars.

Now, I don't think that Tesla is worth

five trillion dollars yet, right?

Like some of the other players out there.

But it's, you know, it's probably in the, it's multiple trillions at this point.

So there's a companion news piece that's related to Elon Musk here, which is that

The fellow who is his, I forget his name now, the fellow who went up on the SpaceX space vehicles and is a colleague of Elon Musk's was just approved as the head of NASA.

So now you have basically given Elon Musk's team and SpaceX information.

effective control and directive management of our entire space program so he's not so it's the u.s taxpayers money that's going to pay for the mars mission not elon musk well yeah um

No, I think, I think it's, it's an ego thing.

They're playing in a, in a, in a big game, but you would hope that there was a, a noble purpose to the big game.

I don't see a lot of philanthropy coming out of Elon Musk at this point.