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TSLA directional thesis

Friedberg treats Tesla killing its flagship car lines to build Optimus not as a loss but as the company trading a saturated EV business for a humanoid-robot labor market measured in the trillions. The bull case is that the same FSD experience that converted his whole family now ships in physical form.

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Yesterday, Elon shut down the Model S and Model X production lines in Fremont. And by the way, you know, a year ago, I'd never owned a Tesla, and I was so blown away with FSD that in the last week, we bought two more Model Xs. So now everyone in my family, we're all on Tesla, because the experience is so good. But they're shutting down the Model S, Model X lines to make Optimus... that's the future, where everyone has a super workforce and you put two Optimus in your garage and they build and run a business for you.
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