Tesla Talk 2

A fair analysis - the VAG group is huge. Tesla is but one company.

If I am reading this right, you are looking down at somebody for driving a Toyota; instead of some crappy plasticky German keeping up with the Jones' SUV?

You are an angry man!

As an aside I think I only currently own one vehicle per ghosts restrictive understanding of “ownership”, a 23 year old Landcruiser J95 thati have had for over a decade.

I was coming home last night in it and I realised it is probably the closest to a perfect vehicle you could own (at least for a non city dweller): it has adequate power, can cruise at or above the motorway limit with ease, it has lots of space (never needed a removal van!) it’s big, but can still fit in a car park (if you take care) it’s surprisingly comfortable, you can drive it free of annoying “aids”, but still has useful technology like ABS, it can manage 30mpg which isn’t great, but ok and most importantly it will always get you where you need to go and back… even though the ice and floods us non Dublin people have to endure (pulled a fallen branch off the road once, waded through 3ft+ of water to get to school another time)

I know this is off topic a little… but there is no one correct answer to what is a good car and attacking various marques and models because of some perceived enlightenment is odd.

I don’t know Jack about watches, but was googling about an IWC portuguiser at one stage (that ultimately I couldn’t convince my self to buy). I only own a seiko in a drawer somewhere and a €20 casio I use for swimming!

gave you one too you could do with it 😉

Maybe just mute the Maidhc fellah folks- just a wind-up merchant obviously!

It will go down a lot after he uses his shares to buy FaceBook 😂

I think he will rename it X and merge it with X, Tesla Motors (also renamed X) and all the rest 😂

King X 😂

Acquisition of Twitter (USD43b) was financed by a large cash injection by Musk ($20b) from sale of some tesla stock, and included also personal borrowings by MUSK ($6+b). These personal borrowings are modest relative to his wealth and borrowings were collateralised by pledge of Tesla stock worth many multiples of the amount borrowed. So any write downs of his borrowings does not arise.

His warchest of Tesla stock alone (13% or 16% with recent comp package — US$125 -155 bn) is certainly capable of raising funds should he wish to "go shopping" and raise funds for acquisitions.

To be fair it was widely reported, summarised and cited here for your edification

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk

Although regardless I would agree with you, he can't afford meta!

Your post suggested that “contrary to popular belief “ implying you know more, that his days of using his wealth for acquisition are over. Clearly his wealth (Tesla only part of it) could be leveraged to raise funds for future large acquisitions.

Lads, don't lose the run of yourselves 😂 I wasn't seriously suggesting he might buy Meta 😂😂😂

True enough. But he got a social media platform (only the Lord and Elon himself know why), he doesn't need another one

And even if TSLA went $1000, and he sold all his shares, he still couldn't afford Meta…