When your portfolio manager calls your stock pitch stupid, but ChatGPT would have said “you are not just noticing patterns, you are identifying structural shifts before they become consensus”
Why is there ETF slop everywhere now,
Like yes I desperately need 5x leveraged NVDA calls wrapped in a covered strangle from an obscure Cayman issuer at 1.2% fees.
There it is:
Tesla, $TSLA, is officially back in record high territory, up +130% from its April 2025 low.
That’s +$900 BILLION in market cap in 7 months.
Absolutely incredible.
Imagine the thing you choose to critique Elon Musk on is work ethic 😂
Elon Musk:
• Works 80–120 hours per week during peak periods
• Jobs created (direct + supply chain): ~600,000
• Salaries paid out by his companies: ~$110 billion
• Taxes he paid in just 2021: $11 billion (largest tax bill for an individual in history)
• Value created for shareholders: Trillions
• Drives hundreds of billions in economic impact
• Brought human spaceflight back to America (SpaceX)
• Helps paralyzed patients control computers with their thoughts, giving new meaning to their lives
• Created Starlink, enabling people to access internet anywhere
Elon’s wealth increases because his companies build products and services people love, companies that generate hundreds of billions of dollars in economic value in the U.S. and around the world. He isn't buying yachts, expensive houses or cars. He's continuously pushing his chips into the middle of the table and creating companies that are changing the world. His wealth is tied up in those companies, thus he only pays big tax bills when he sells stock, which is rare.
We are all so fucking lucky.
We are the luckiest mfers in history.
You can fly anywhere on Earth in less than 24 hours.
Your great-grandfather died within 50 miles of his birthplace.
You can talk to anyone alive from your pocket, for free.
You can start a business from your toilet.
You can learn ANYTHING, instantly, for free.
Nearly everyone before you died young, never left their village, had three career options.
They’d sell their fucking souls for ONE DAY of your life.
Travel the world. Make friends. Build cool shit. Enjoy it. We won the lottery.
You can just do things.
So go do them.
Plan later what.
Fortune favors the fast.
For whoever is keeping score, @ElonMusk has cofounded the 1st, 2nd, and 5th-most valuable private companies in the world right now, as well as the 10th-most valuable public company in the world. I genuinely don't understand why anyone feels courageous enough to bet against him.