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um the reason is that I think people it took people look I bought Tesla in 2014 or 15. I was one of the largest owners of the convertible debt you know I felt that that was the best margin of safety way to bet on Tesla um it's turned out to be an enormous winner um and I really believe in what Elon is doing I think he's the most important entrepreneur of our of Our Lifetime right now um it's taken people 15 years to embrace um that they're going to be now a legitimate car company but when I underwrote the investment my bet was on something bigger and I think that Elon is well past building a car company and I think it'll take another five or ten years for people to figure out what this next Park of innovation is and what that is is that is the deregulation of energy that is what Tesla is powering that is what allows it to be a multi-trillion dollar company I want to understand shamas how you decide what to invest in do you believe well maybe I can just give you an insight into how I process any opportunity sure company random company comes in uh to the top of the funnel immediately I'm making a very quick hopefully it's a decision but maybe sometimes it's a judgment um and I'm asking myself does this fit into my world view or not meaning is it is it is it in my circle of confidence and I have a very simple way of looking at this is it going to fix something inequality that I think is important or is it going to fix something in climate change that I think is important those are the only two things I care about inequality and climate change under inequality there's a bunch of stuff Financial equality is important Health Care equality is important education but quality is important so it allows me to organize a lot of different opportunities um and I'm trying to figure out is there a consumer proposition here that's important for them does it make something more symmetric does it take something that was asymmetric and fix it so that's my first judgment which is qualitative that's why whenever I start my one pagers it's always what is the strategy and you can read all of these one Pages now and what you'll get away from them is the first lens is equality and or climate change then I start to do the fundamental work and you know this is where I have a real issue with a lot of people who say that they're value investors I think that I'm a value industry um the thing is that when you look up the word value in the dictionary it doesn't mean cheap it doesn't mean a cigar butt with two possible you know that famous Buffett Monger quote I think it actually means something that has value and so then I'm really thinking about you know what are the cash flows of this business how does it create a moat right meaning in software some technological way that's hard for people to compete with it and then can I get it for a price where there's a margin of safety where if they mis-execute for a quarter or if they have a little hiccup it's going to be okay because you know we've got an entry point where five or ten years from now this thing will be five to ten times bigger and that's how we think about all these things and if you look at the deals that I've done they kind of map pretty singularly one to one to that um framework so let's use a real world example obviously this is not the kind of deal you're doing but if you looked at Tesla today through that lens is that stock a buy within market cap north of 800 billion dollars uh I mean the short answer is yes the reason is that I think people it took people look I bought Tesla in 2014 or 15.
I was one of the largest owners of the convertible debt you know I felt that that was the best margin of safety way to bet on Tesla um it's turned out to be an enormous winner um and I really believe in what Elon is doing I think he's the most important entrepreneur of our of Our Lifetime right now it's taken people 15 years to embrace um that they're going to be now a legitimate car company but when I underwrote the investment my bet was on something bigger and I think that Elon is well past building a car company and I think it'll take another five or ten years for people to figure out what this next Park of innovation is and what that is is the deregulation of energy if you look under the hood you know utilities spend tens of billions of dollars hundreds of billions of dollars a year all around the world on cabinets they are completely regulated they feel completely safe they feel like they can issue debt Ad nauseam you know they can cause all kinds of damage into the environment otherwise look at PG e and still come away unscathed because they're protected except that something is happening that nobody forecasted which is the complete Bottoms Up disruption of energy and that's the only way that this thing is going to get uh deregulated it's not going to be by law or dictate it's not going to be you know a big monolithic competitor it's going to be because every home installs Hydro panels solar panels batteries and then software that basically allows them to live off the grid and then eventually pump their excess energy into battery Solutions and other things that are controlled by cities and towns and governments who then in turn will turn off their usage of peakers at a minimum and then over time we'll have very different characteristics of usage from traditional utilities that is what Tesla is powering that is what allows it to be a multi-trillion dollar company tomorrow
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