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Elon’s Twitter endgame, Tesla blowing expectations out of the water, and why we should stop thinking about it as a company that just makes cars w/ Emmet Peppers


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Today, we’re talking with Good Soil Investment Management’s Emmet Peppers—a Tesla expert and enthusiast. On Wednesday of this week, Tesla reported first-quarter earnings for 2022 and beat analysts’ expectations on the top and bottom lines.

Emmet has owned Tesla since 2010. Back then it had a market cap of $2.5 billion. It’s now well over trillion.

We talk with him about how Tesla blew estimates out of the water and managed to post a greater than sevenfold increase in profit despite supply chain issues. We discuss the advent of robo-taxis, and self-driving cars, and how people need to stop thinking about Tesla as just a car manufacturer. And of course we couldn’t talk about Elon Musk without touching on his plans for Twitter.

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Currently by PrometheusBy Ryan Pallotta