Ben Thompson
speaker
42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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whole thing from a financial analyst perspective doesn't make sense.
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Doesn't fully right.
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And so just in general, when it comes to anything Elon Musk related, I write about him like once every five years.
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And the reason is because it's really annoying and impossible.
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Like why do I never cover Tesla earnings?
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Because Tesla all along is
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fueled by like promises and belief, especially of like retail investors.
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how big the
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Well, so so when I wrote uh and I uh I wrote It's a Tesla in twenty sixteen or something like that, when the model three was put on made available for pre-order and like three hundred thousand people put down a thousand dollars in like twelve hours.
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Like like which was remains pretty incredible for a a car that, you know, and it it was it spoke to the power of
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Elon Musk and the brand.
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Yeah.
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And and and why and I wrote another another it's funny, I do like the articles.
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I don't even tend to write about Elon Musk, but it's just hard.
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Like I wrote another one a few years later, Mistakes and Memes, about this this flip where it used to be
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You go back to like the march on Washington, uh, you know, very famous civil rights march, which entailed years of preparation, both in terms of of of seeing the political ground, but also organizationally.
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And like the like that specific march, I think, was like two years in the planning.
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And it culminated in this sort of incredible moment, one of the most famous speeches in history, Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech.
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speech and that was how mass movements like had they had to be built.
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Yeah.
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