Naval Ravikant once shared a story about Bill Gates shorting Tesla, a bet that could ultimately cost him more than $10 billion.
Gates had taken a massive short position against Tesla, reportedly equivalent to roughly 1% of the companyโs total shares.
Naval suggested that if Tesla became the worldโs most valuable company by a wide margin, the losses could be so enormous that even someone as wealthy as Bill Gates could face financial ruin.
But what fascinated Naval wasn't the money. It was Elon Muskโs reaction.
Musk was genuinely confused. How could someone who publicly championed clean energy financially bet against a company working to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy?
To Gates, it was reportedly just a financial decision. But to Musk, it was something much deeper.
According to Naval, that moment revealed something fundamental about Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is not driven by money, wealth, or status. He is driven by a mission.
The billions he earns are not trophies. They are tools.
Tools to build rockets, revolutionize transportation, advance technology, and ultimately make humanity a multiplanetary civilization.
Karen Swisher makes ten million dollars a year from tech companies advertising on her podcast and has the ears of powerful Democrats
She's using that platform, paid for by the technology industry, to encourage the prosecution of our greatest entrepreneurs and patriots.
Prof. G encouraged their listeners to "resist and unsubscribe" from all of the great technology companies in America, including Uber, Netflix, Salesforce, Amazon Prime, Google, Meta, and Apple!!!
These technology companies are advertising on the podcast that is actively encouraging the demise of tech products and entrepreneurs! ๐คฆ๐คฆ๐คฆ๐๐๐๐
Robotaxi updates
Service
โ Operating hours are now 6am - 2am
Features
โ Rear view camera feed now available to view during your ride
โ Trip details can be shared with a friend
โ New Live Activity design & experience
โ Calm Mode dims the screen & sets cabin lighting to a relaxing state
โ Grok now available on our Model Y vehicles
Accessibility
โ Improved vehicle locating arrow in the app
โ Added haptic feedback to assist users in finding their vehicle
โ Music Control via Screen Reader
Mary, your own facts don't match your headline.
You charged O'Keefe and Higby with felonies, but you admitted they stopped short of signing the oath, received no ballots, and cast no votes. You even said it's "pretty clear they did not intend to vote."
So what did they do? Ask about a vouching system that lets one registered voter vouch for 8 strangers โ on camera. That's not disrupting democracy, that's exposing how weak it is.
Meanwhile, in that same August primary, federal prosecutors charged ten non-citizens with actually registering or voting illegally. Where's your felony press conference for that?
And let's be clear: we're a constitutional republic, not a pure democracy. In a republic, the law protects legal votes it doesn't punish journalists for asking questions.
You won't tolerate questions. You will tolerate a broken system. And you turned your comments off because you know Minnesotans see right through it.
๐บ๐ธ Another Minnesota food fraud figure is going away for a LONG time: 30 years for a $44 million scam built on fake kids' meals.
Salim Said, who ran a Minneapolis restaurant, claimed 6,000 meals a day under a federal COVID child food program. FBI cameras showed about 40 people a day.
He kept it up for 21 months, and the money went into a $1.2 million home, commercial real estate and an $87,000 pickup.
Ringleader Aimee Bock is already serving 42 years. Dozens of others have been convicted.
He wanted government-funded meals so badly. Now heโs got them, 3 a day for the next 30 years.
Source: AP / Writer: Julie
Throughout my 20 something years in investing, SpaceX $SPCX is the largest arbitrage Iโve ever encountered. Itโs not a misunderstanding in the usual sense โ itโs a cognitive error at market scale, and that error is the edge for anyone willing to look.
Management has published guidance and data in the open; the spoon is right there in front of everyone. Yet large parts of the market still canโt see it, or simply refuse to, because the numbers are genuinely that extreme. I donโt know whether this window stays open for one year, two, or ten. But I suspect that whenever it closes, looking back will be one of the more interesting exercises in modern market history.
Tesla just registered another 29 Cybercabs for its Robotaxi fleet, bringing the total number of Cybercabs registered to date to 573, according to the Texas DMV.
Tesla has now added 222 Cybercabs to its robotaxi in the last week alone.
JUST IN: Tesla Robotaxi now covers more territory than Waymo in Austin, Houston, & Dallas, with its combined Texas service area nearly doubling Waymo's.
Tesla just registered another 11 Cybercabs for its Robotaxi fleet, bringing the total number of Cybercabs registered to date to 433, according to the Texas DMV.