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John Stepek

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1100 total appearances

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Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

I mean, I suppose one thing I've been thinking, and I know, again, I'm not unique in suggesting this, but if anything might, for want of a better word, break passive investing, this could be the thing that does it.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

Yeah.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

In terms of tilting...

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

I guess you've already got a huge sector concentration.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

I mean, so if you just lump another massive AI company in on top of the rest of them, then you're kind of turning the indices into one big concentrated bet on a very specific company.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

And then also that's where a huge chunk of not just the US, but the world's pension money is sitting as well.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

It's astronomical.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

I mean, you're right.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

I mean, it is interesting because I do think that Musk then, he clearly has an extraordinary talent and he has built some extraordinary companies.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

And, you know, for all that he's got, his critics, he's also not just, you know, he's not a chancer in terms of.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

No, definitely.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

There's a lot of concrete stuff behind him.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

And I suppose the other interesting thing with Tesla is that even though now, I mean, I think it's fair to say it is the company that put the electric car on the map.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

And without him, the electric cars would almost certainly not have taken off.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

There's a kind of historic counterfactual there.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

And anyone that cares about the environment should probably be very grateful to him, in fact.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

But now Tesla has competition from lots of other electric car manufacturers.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

It also is competition from lots of other self-drive manufacturers.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

And yet it still manages to not succumb to any kind of fundamental, I suppose.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing

And that, I mean, as you say, it's one thing to think, I mean, you might have faith in SpaceX because of Tesla defying gravity all the time.