#93 – Markets, Investing, Netflix, Tesla, Nvidia, XaI

October 9, 2025

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Katie Porter: Governor of CA. Can we just get some smart rational leaders?! 

Music: 

  • Every major has a corresponding minor. 
  • Major: WWHWWWH 
  • C: CDEFGAB
  • Minor: 123456 = Am

Markets

All time highs!  

  • Market up 4x in 10 years. 

$100,000 10 yrs ago: 

VOO = $400,000

VGT = $800,000

Apple = $1m 

NFLX = $1.1m

TSLA = $2.8m 

NVIDIA = $30m

100,000 = $400,000 now

 

My NFLX was $10k, now ~$900k.

 

Symbol Total Returns (Daily)
1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 7 Year 10 Year
AAPL 16% 86% 129% 382% 930%
AMZN 23% 94% 39% 135% 718%
GOOG 51% 150% 241% 330% 675%
META 22% 438% 178% 356% 676%
MSFT 29% 129% 160% 401% 1185%
NFLX 70% 430% 123% 239% 1002%
NVDA 45% 1434% 1229% 2668% 29157%
QQQ 26% 129% 123% 252% 517%
TSLA 80% 94% 205% 2380% 2701%
VGT 31% 146% 147% 306% 696%
VOO 19% 93% 111% 160% 300%

 

Investment over time: 

At age 25 max your 401k at $23,500 and save an extra $1,000/month. Increase by $1000/mo annually until age 50.

You should have over $10m by age 50. (below shows $13.5m with 10% returns.

Netflix

WokeFlix. 

  • Everyone will hate something!!

Greg Peters - Co CEO:

  • "Go with God and try to monetize the heck outta that."Good philosophy for LIFE! 
  • Still really the only PURE streaming play

Tesla

Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla Compensation Plan

  • Structure: 12 tranches; each tranche vested only upon achieving both a market cap milestone and an operational goal.
  • Milestones: 12 market cap targets starting at $100B and increasing by $50B each up to $650B
  • Done in 2023. 

Stock was basically $20 and 10X!!!   20x now.

Elon Musk's 2025 Proposed Tesla Compensation Plan

  • Structure: Similar to 2018 with 12 tranches of restricted stock. 
  • Milestones: 12 market cap targets from $2T to $8.5T

FSD v14. Watch the vides. Parking in Garages, fast-food drive-thru’s, pulling over for ambulance, etc… 

 

Tesla is the world leader in:

(1) Real-world AI (2) Robotics and (3) Manufacturing advanced integrated hardware and software at scale. This 3rd point is under-appreciated, but is key to profitability.

XAI

XAI/Grok, Gemini/Google, OpenAI/ChatGPT, 

Jensen Huang:

Play video here

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