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Musk Can Take Tesla To $8.5 Trillion, And That Should Terrify You.

The largest magic trick of all time is about to be pulled.

All the hoo-haa over Tesla offering Musk a $1 trillion pay package hinges on him getting the valuation from its current roughly $1 trillion market cap, all the way up to $8.5 trillion by 2025. That would make it nearly three times more valuable than the current most valuable company in the world. Let’s be frank, Musk’s plan on achieving this, from robotaxis that crash to useless robots that walk like they have shat themselves, simply won’t work. It is so moronic in such a vast plethora of ways that it is hard to get a concise reason as to why it will fail. It appears that Musk will almost certainly fail, and fail spectacularly. But I have forgotten something. We don’t live in that world any more, and in our new reality, Musk can hit $8.5 trillion quite easily. And when I say that should terrify you, I mean it. Let me explain.

As recently as last summer, major investors were already predicting that Tesla would reach this valuation solely based on robotaxis.

Cathy Wood’s infamous ARK Invest predicted that Tesla’s robotaxi service would rapidly roll out and generate between $603 billion and $951 billion per year in revenue by 2029, pushing Tesla’s valuation up to $7 trillion to $10.9…