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- Two nights ago, we had
Tesla's 2023 Investor Day

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and I stayed in this very office
until 8:00 PM to watch it,

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so you didn't have to.

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And guess what?

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You didn't miss anything.

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Tesla talked a lot about the
master plan, Elon Musk's idea

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for global world domination
under a nice Tesla logo.

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He talked about storing energy
for the grid in mega packs

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and converting every
single car into a Tesla.

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He sort of failed to consider

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that there might be a
world beyond his products

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but he sees himself as
the singular soul savior

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of humanity in the face of climate change.

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Do his ideas help that not really, no.

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But are his ideas practical

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for his car company to attain?

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Also, no.

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See, the engineers and business
folks at Tesla actually came

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out of Investor's Day
looking pretty smart.

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They found realistically
solvable problems in things

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like supply chain and car
design, and tried to tackle them.

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Everything with Elon has
to ladder back into this,

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into saving the world,
cutting energy costs,

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fixing transport and
shipping and energy storage

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and the grid, and also HVAC,
which was kind of a weird thing

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for Tesla to get into the home heating.

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But sure, okay.

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I guess that's a thing
they want to do now.

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One thing is clear.

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There are genuinely smart
people working at Tesla.

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They genuinely want to solve problems

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and do interesting work.

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It's just that one guy

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at the top that keeps getting in the way.

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(engine roaring)

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(swoosh music)