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Matt Frankel

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566 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Tesla’s Daring Move

I think they're closer on the taxis product than the robot product.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

Within two years, maybe we'll see some robo-taxis.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

I think they're testing in Austin, I think is where they're testing robo-taxis.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

I push back that you're the most skeptical of the three on pulling off the robot thing.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

But yeah, you're right, they have limited

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Tesla’s Daring Move

Capital, they do have a good ability to raise more, if I'm being fair.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

Tesla has sold shares to raise capital in the past.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

With a $1.3 trillion valuation, they wouldn't need to dilute shareholders very much to get another $20 billion, $40 billion if they needed to.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

I don't think we're going to see mass production of robots or robo-taxis in two years, but I'm not sure that we need to.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

Tyler, I noticed that trend, too.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

In the third quarter, there was a clear theme of Meta and a few others being punished for increasing their CapEx outlooks.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

But now it seems the market's buying into it, or at least just assuming that CapEx is going to be more than initially expected, no matter what.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

In Meta's case, as you mentioned, it's a very big increase, roughly double 2025's level.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

What makes it even stranger that the market's fine with it,

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Tesla’s Daring Move

is that Meta is spending all of this money to largely provide infrastructure for the least profitable parts of its company.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

They gave fantastic first quarter guidance.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

I have to think that's the main reason we're seeing the stock rally higher.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

On Microsoft, you really hit the nail on the head with the open AI concern.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

Look how much Oracle is off of its highs recently.

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Tesla’s Daring Move

OpenAI is substantially all of their backlog.