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TSLA directional thesis

Building electric cars is a software game, but only the company that gets the factory to scale survives, and that brutal lesson from a failed bet is exactly why one name won.

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“Ultimately, autos are a bad business. It could be software autos, hardware autos. It is a bad business and it's a really tough business to scale and very capital intensive.”
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