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Matt Frankel

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

So if you're an energy sector investor, be prepared for these kinds of swings.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

If you're invested in stocks that have kind of more secondary impacts of oil price swings, then just know that it's not a permanent headwind for the business.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

It's just a temporary condition.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

And if you're invested in great businesses, then it'll even out over the long term.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

It certainly is ambitious.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

But I mean, first of all, keep in mind that, you know, the Gigafactory seemed like a very ambitious project at first and that was delivered.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

But keep it in perspective.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

You know, the three companies that you mentioned, XAI, SpaceX and Tesla,

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

they have a combined valuation of well over $2 trillion, over $3 trillion, depending on who you ask.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

So spending $25 billion in CapEx, even if it's on the largest chip factory that will ever have been built in the world, it isn't exactly a massive bet in terms of spending, especially when you consider Amazon is spending $200 billion on CapEx this year.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

And Tesla has always liked to handle as much as possible internally.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

I mentioned the Gigafactory with batteries.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

Take it with a grain of salt.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

Musk does have a history of

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

Not necessarily under delivering and over promising, but really aiming for the stars when it comes to innovations.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

And he usually gets about 80, 90% of the way there.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

So we'll see how this goes.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

So think back to some things that are now commonplace in our everyday life that were major trends not too long ago.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

Things like software as a service and smartphones are even.

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The Newest Big Idea from Elon Musk: Terafab

And I can even remember back to when e-commerce really was an early stage trend.