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munk-ayesterday at 5:07 PM6 repliesview on HN

Elon's award is tied to growing Tesla's market cap - it's pretty transparent that he's just trying to ball-of-mud together everything he can to hit that target and grab the bag.


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digitaltreesyesterday at 6:29 PM

No. He is making it an AI company. The prospectus makes that clear. Everything is in service of training and deploying AI. Twitter is data, distribution and marketing, space x is distribution with data centers and internet in space. Cursor is training data and hostile distillation.

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andrubyyesterday at 5:24 PM

What would it mean if SpaceX buys Tesla though? Does the combined market cap count? That would be wrong. Tesla buying SpaceX just for hist bonus and then rebranding to X would be classic Musk.

It's a game for him, but so ridiculous. While Tesla was pushing electrification and SpaceX pushing rapid rocket re-use I kind of tolerated Elon's antics, but since he got involved in politics and DOGE I can't bear it anymore.

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itslennysfaultyesterday at 6:01 PM

I agree with this, but it seems so crazy to me. How can money be a motivator when you're that rich. I'm not even "rich" but I'm already at a point where money is far from my #1 motivator.

I LOVE puppies, but if I had a trillion of them the last thing I'd want is another puppy.

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burnteyesterday at 7:00 PM

> it's pretty transparent that he's just trying to ball-of-mud together everything he can to hit that target and grab the bag.

I agree, and most people do too, yet he'll get away with it. We're in the kleptocracy phase of the fall.

rltyesterday at 6:58 PM

That’s not how it works. There’s provisions to adjust the targets if there’s M&A.

testing22321yesterday at 6:12 PM

His award is also tied to numbers of vehicles and robots sold.

So just increasing market cap won’t do it alone.

Even if he merged them, they still have to produce WAY more than they are now.