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*SPOILER ALERT* Do not watch this if you want to be surprised at Tesla Battery Investor Day. This video is my entire theory of how Tesla tested Maxwell's tech in 2017/18, bought the company in 2019, and has been scaling in house battery cell production with the DBE technology, ever since. Tesla's biggest constraint on growth is they don't have enough batteries. On Battery Investor Day they will announce they are bringing cell production in house and will bring a new battery cell to market to solve this problem IMO. It's going to be epic :) Plz comment your theories below. Remember this is all a guess!! I have no idea what Tesla will actually announce.

Interview with Tom Kysar, the head of Operations at Augur. Augur is a decentralized betting platform/prediction market that is built on the Ethereum blockchain. It originally launched a V1 beta version a couple years ago that generated $25M in bets. Now they have relaunched Augur V2, and you can use it to place decentralized bets today! I think this is one of the most promising Dapp projects in Crypto and am excite to follow its progress. Shoutout to Tom from Augur for taking the time for this interview!

If Tesla designed a vehicle from scratch for the Indian market, what would that look like? How about an electric rickshaw, the Cybershaw. This is a moonshot concept that I think has a lot of potential to move people & cargo around urban environments. Projections show Indian electric rickshaw sales could hit 20M units per year, at $2.5K per unit, that's a $50B market.

The head of Panasonic's US EV business (and in charge of working with Tesla at the Nevada Gigafactory), has revealed details about the company's battery cell technology roadmap. Panasonic expects energy density to improve 20% in 5 years, and significant cobalt reductions even sooner. It's interesting to see Tesla continually upgrading its Panasonic lines, and continue building this relationship ... with rumors heating up about Tesla building its own battery cells in house. The Battery Investor Day speculation continues!

Bloomberg reports SpaceX is raising $1B in new funding at a $44B valuation (its highest ever). I give my thoughts on SpaceX's funding strategy, why they will never IPO (or it will take forever), and the exciting potential of a Starlink spinout/IPO.

The Silicon Valley investor GOATS 🐐Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks and David Freiberg have turned their poker squad into the world's best new podcast. With under 5,000 subscribers and 68,000 total views, this is a total hidden gem. I expect this to blow up (rightfully so) as the world's leading business podcast and hit 1M subscribers. I'm so stoked these people I consider hero's of mine are taking the time to spread their knowledge! Go Subscribe!!

Analysis of Tesla's Q2 2020 shareholder letter, financial results and conference call. It was an EPIC call, with the Austin factory confirmed (on 2,000 acres), and Elon's excitement showing through. Tesla is doing better than ever! The company has reported 4 GAAP Net Income profits in a row, despite the COVID crisis, and is still on track to hit guidance of 500,000 deliveries in 2020. Congrats Tesla!!

Interview with Yahoo! Finance on 07/22, pre-Tesla Q2 earnings, discussing what to expect in the upcoming report. I go into the solarroof opportunity, and why Tesla's 'Computers on Wheels' business model justifies a higher market capitalization than Toyota. Huge shoutout to Yahoo! for inviting me on, thank you!

Chinese EV-maker NIO has seen its stock price soar 220% in the past year, to a valuation of ~$15B. Is the hype justified for the 'Tesla of China'? I think so. NIO just reported record Q2 deliveries of 10,000+ vehicles, and is set to introduce a lower cost coupe (EC6) later this year. What are your thoughts on NIO stock and it's valuation?

My expectations for Tesla's financials in Q2, are $5.9B in revenue and $121M in GAAP operating income. If deliveries continue ramping, Tesla has a good shot of hitting its (pre-COVID) 2020 delivery guidance of 500,000+ units. Additionally, with deliveries beating production by about 8K units in the quarter, cash flow will likely be positive (around $1B). On the conference call I'll be looking for updates on Gigafactory Shanghai, the Tesla Semi and 2H 2020 deliveries. Overall, this was a SUPER impressive quarter. Tesla was able to grow deliveries by 2% despite the pandemic, and has a shot at another profitable quarter.