Scott Galloway
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Because I wonder, you know, you can go to some weird places.
But again, I think AI and robotics, yes.
This notion that we're going to have robots serving us our food or in our house, I don't see that.
Yeah, I get it.
I just don't.
The stuff I've seen on actual application of these robots.
And keep in mind, these individuals, the job of the CEO now is it used to be to under-promise and over-deliver.
Now it's over-promise and under-deliver and create a vision.
It creates cheap capital so you can pull the future forward.
My understanding is three years ago, we had a million autonomous Tesla taxis on the road, and that did not happen.
In 2016, Musk said, or 2017, there was going to be... Autonomous was two years away, driving.
So their job is to predict a very exciting future.
I also think Musk in particular is very...
good at saying, look over here as he stuffs a rabbit into a hat.
I mean, Tesla is an automobile company, so he's got to create a story to justify its 155 times earnings when most automobile companies trade at 10 or 15.
So it's robots, it's space, it's connectivity with AI and autonomous and robots.
It's constantly look over here because I think it's very difficult to justify the valuations he's raising money at.
So to be clear, he, as much as anybody, is able to pull that vision forward.
He's launched 90% of the rockets sent into space have been by SpaceX.
But this is a company that's trading, that has $16 billion in revenue with $8 billion in profits.