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Speaker 1: and at Bloomberg dot com. Tesla reported earnings yesterday after

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Speaker 1: the bell and what they delivered up was very pleasing

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Speaker 1: to traders, at least initially in after hours, but they've

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Speaker 1: kind of backed away from some of those bets now.

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Speaker 1: I want to bring in somebody who knows much more

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Speaker 1: about this than I do, Liam Denning. He is a

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg gad Fly columnist, and you wrote a column that

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Speaker 1: highlighted one number in particular, nine hundred and seventy million dollars.

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Speaker 1: That's the amount of cash the Tesla burned through in

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Speaker 1: the last three months of two thousand sixteen. So what

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Speaker 1: from the Tesla earnings? I mean, yeah, that's really the

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Speaker 1: only number that that counts with Tesla any any time.

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Speaker 1: I mean the earnings themselves. They were distorted this quarter

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Speaker 1: by the acquisition of Solar City UM. And in any case,

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Speaker 1: whether Tesla beats earnings MSS earnings, there is zero correlation

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Speaker 1: Why because the key issue here is UM is Tesla's

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Speaker 1: vision that Elon Musk lays out. If you look at

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Speaker 1: any valuation model for Tesla, most of the value resides

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Speaker 1: in what people expect it to be doing. You know,

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Speaker 1: need for cash necessitates a strong message of growth and transformation.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I meant when I said,

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Speaker 1: him literally, that's a good that's a good distinction to make. Liam.

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Speaker 1: I was looking at the f A page because I

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Speaker 1: you just mentioned, at least for the year one point

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Speaker 1: there any estimate how much they're going to need? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: So what is what is the most what he wants

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Speaker 1: think about it is this, so, um, you know, revenue

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Markets PM, he said. A year ago. Chief executive

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Speaker 1: Liam Denning, Bloomberg Gadfly columns. Shares of Tesla data about

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Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Minution could have a much more direct effect

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Speaker 1: Like what types of things you're talking about, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to say. Right now. He seems very focused

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Speaker 1: Well that and uh in a coming election. I want

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