Stephen Bertrand

Christian | Husband & dad of 6 | Homeschooler | Marketing pro | Stocks & options trader | Chess enthusiast

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 FORMER TESLA PRESIDENT ADMITS ELON USED THE DOMINO’S PIZZA APP TO REINVENT HOW PEOPLE BUY CARS — AND THE STORY IS BLOWING PEOPLE’S MINDS

Former Tesla president Jon McNeill is going viral after revealing the bizarre moment Elon Musk pulled up the Domino’s pizza app during a meeting… because Tesla customers needed 64 CLICKS just to buy a car online.

Elon’s reaction?
“How many taps does it take to get a pizza?”

Answer:
• 10 taps

Buying a Tesla at the time?
• 64 clicks
• endless loan documents
• nonstop forms
• massive friction

Elon became obsessed with stripping the process down after realizing most of the paperwork wasn’t even legally required.

So Tesla started going bank-to-bank asking:
Why does buying a car need to feel harder than ordering dinner?

Most banks reportedly refused to cooperate.

Then one Midwest bank CEO finally agreed to test a radically simplified system… and Tesla allegedly eliminated around 40 clicks from the process almost overnight.

Now people online are saying this perfectly explains why Tesla disrupted the entire auto industry while traditional dealerships kept drowning customers in paperwork, waiting rooms, and sales tactics.

Did Tesla accidentally expose how outdated the entire car dealership model really was?

📹: kencoleman

[Meb Faber @MebFaber]

𝗧𝗼𝗺 𝗟𝗲𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝟱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟬 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲:

"JPMorgan makes $60 billion a year, the most profitable bank in the world, with 300,000 employees. Jane Street... just reported $10 billion in profit in the first quarter with 3,000 employees."

"With one one-thousandth the number of employees, they're almost as profitable as JPMorgan. And they're making more money than the second, third, fourth largest banks in the world."

"Tether, which is a crypto-native, completely digital-native bank selling a stablecoin, is going to make $15 billion this year, which would rank it as the eighth most profitable bank in the world with 300 employees."

"What's happening with blockchain is what happened with digital media where there were the traditional studios and then there was Netflix, or with telecom where there was long distance and local and then there was cellular."

Full episode with @fundstrat:

🍎 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲: https://t.co/e7Jwb0X7QH

📺 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲: https://t.co/ooxgS4ajur

[Liz Ann Sonders @LizAnnSonders]

April nonfarm payrolls +115k vs. +65k est. & +185k in prior month (rev. up from +178k)

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

This is a page from the back of Byte Magazine 42 years ago. One of these 9 companies has generated $1.87 trillion in revenues since inception. Can you spot it?#PlayNiceButWin

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Without this global town square for free speech, a lot of important things never would’ve seen daylight.

Real-time information governments tried to bury. Scientific debate that was actively censored. Voices that would’ve stayed silenced forever.

Respect to @elonmusk for being the man in the arena when it actually counted. 🫡🙏

[Stephen Bertrand @StephenBertrand]

“The true cost is not just the losing bet, it is the compounded future value of the investment that was never made…
Owning beats hoping.
Discipline beats speculation.”
— Liz Ann Sonders & Kevin Gordon, Schwab

https://t.co/YbJ2JIRsTe

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Unsupervised @Tesla Robotaxi ride in Dallas, Texas today.

It was 56% cheaper than what Waymo was priced at for this trip:
• Tesla: $6.15
• Waymo: $13.93
Total trip length: 2.25 miles, 7 minutes

(video taken and sent by a follower who asked to remain anonymous)

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Today Tesla FSD is ~9x safer than humans

Soon, FSD will be 1000x safer and driving manually will be considered dangerous

Every Tesla on the road feeds real-world data back to train the AI. Billions of miles. Every edge case. Every near-miss. No human driver can learn that fast

The fleet is the teacher and it never sleeps

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening.

UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm.

The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6.

Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it.

The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in.

About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters.

"I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Grok 4.20 hitting 83% on non-hallucination. Values truth.

Claude ~74%. Others sitting in the 60s… or way lower.

Less guessing. More honesty when it doesn’t know.

That’s a different kind of intelligence.

@xAI @Grok @XFreeze

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

THE ARTEMIS II ECLIPSE.
April 6, 2026.

Totality, beyond Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few in human history have ever witnessed. Photo: NASA

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

This is big... Anthropic just announced a model so powerful they won't release it to the public out of fear over the damage it will cause 😨

Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-day exploits in every major operating system and web browser...

The numbers are hard to believe:
> $50 to find a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, one of the most security-hardened operating systems ever built

> Under $1,000 to find AND build a fully working remote code execution exploit on FreeBSD that grants unauthenticated root access from anywhere on the internet

> Under $2,000 to chain together multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities into a complete privilege escalation exploit

For context: these are the kinds of findings that previously required elite security researchers working for weeks.
Anthropic engineers with no formal security training asked Mythos to find exploits overnight. They woke up to working code the next morning.

The results were so impressive Anthropic assembled Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, and seven other organizations into Project Glasswing:

A $100M defensive coalition. They're not releasing this model publicly. Instead, they're racing to patch the world's infrastructure before models like this proliferate.

[NASA @NASA]

It's not just a phase 🌕

Artemis II astronauts captured these views of the Moon as the Orion spacecraft flew around the far side of the Moon on April 6, 2026.

[NASA @NASA]

Sky full of stars.

Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026.

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Liz Ann Sonders @LizAnnSonders]

Private ADP payrolls added an average of 10,250 jobs per week for four-weeks ending Jan. 31…third consecutive week of higher job gains ⁦@AdpResearch⁩

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

WEDBUSH: TECH SELLOFF OVERDONE AS AI SPENDING SURGES

The recent pullback in tech stocks is overdone, according to Wedbush Securities, which says the artificial intelligence investment cycle is still in its early innings.

The firm estimates the market is in year three of a decade-long AI buildout, with 2026 marking a key inflection point. It expects large tech companies to spend about $650 billion in capex in 2026, alongside growing government and corporate AI investment.

Recent volatility has hit major names despite strong earnings from Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Palantir Technologies. Wedbush views the weakness as short-term risk aversion, not a shift in long-term fundamentals.

The firm also argues that declines in Salesforce, ServiceNow and Microsoft fail to reflect their strategic roles in the AI ecosystem.

While AI is reshaping enterprise software budgets, Wedbush says fears of rapid displacement are overstated, and broader AI adoption should support sector growth.

[Liz Ann Sonders @LizAnnSonders]

January CPI #inflation +2.4% vs. +2.5% est. & +2.7% prior; core +2.5% vs. +2.5% est. & +2.6% prior

[Liz Ann Sonders @LizAnnSonders]

In year/year terms, CPI core services (orange) eased to +3.5% in September … core goods (blue) held at +1.5%