One is the absolute brother of the new energy automobile industry, and the other is the leader of technology stocks relying on black technology. Seeing the two strong players meet, the electric car track will usher in a world war sooner or later. This week, Tesla CEO Musk exposed a "past life origin" with Apple in its dark period on Twitter:
In the darkest days of the Tesla Model 3 project, I contacted Apple CEO Cook to discuss the possibility of letting Apple acquire Tesla (one tenth of the current market value). But Cook refused to attend the meeting.
The tone is brisk, but Musk, who has now turned into the head of the $600 billion giant, said this sentence, which is enough to ridicule and anger. Obviously, he still remembers the hatred of Apple's "love and disregard". After all, I missed a good opportunity to buy Tesla at one tenth of the price at the first sight. Now Apple can only save money to build a car.
Dramatically, when netizens went back to the early Twitter version of "The Darkest Days", they found that the despair of that year was only taken over by Musk with an oath that "money is no problem".
Now that the undercurrent under the calm sea surface has been revealed, we can see how Tesla pretended to be calm in every difficult period in recent years.
I have to say that Twitter is indeed a good means for Musk to instill confidence in investors. Two years ago, with the help of several emergency funds from Volkswagen, Saudi Fund and Musk himself, Tesla finally survived the difficult period. Now, under the strong long-short confrontation in the market, Tesla continues to triumph all the way, and its share price has increased tenfold in a year.
Liam Denning, a columnist of Bloomberg, said that Tesla may be using the stock price rise to effectively adjust the company's capital structure. He noticed that although Tesla has always claimed that it is almost self-financing, its stock issuance in 2020 is more than the sum of the past 65,438+00 years.
With Apple building a car, Tesla ushered in new short-selling pressure. Adam Jonas, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, believes that Apple has the key elements to succeed in the future automotive industry, including capital channels, the ability to attract and retain top talents and mature hardware design expertise, and will be a competitor that cannot be underestimated.
In the future, it remains to be seen whether Tesla is superior in technology and will continue to be the top spot in new energy, or whether Apple will succeed in "kicking the pavilion".
This article comes from what I saw on Wall Street.