Bezos needs to step up his game. Spending too much time with girlfriends… 
Tesla Is the Decade’s Best-Performing Auto Company
Anyone who bought the stock when Tesla went public in 2010 has a bonanza of 1,190%.
Don’t think @wuqijun ever trim stocks, he is a buy n hold. He got three big winners in 2019, AAPL, TSLA and FB. Vaguely recall is his top 3 holdings.
He’s kicking major butt then!
Gonna keep being a bloodbath in 2020
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Watching Tesla going higher and higher teaches me to be humble. I never thought it could go that high and I was wrong.
I still find it incredible we make cars right here in Silicon Valley.
Truly incredible… I’ve seen more and more Tesla offices and buildings along 880. Good for them.
Obviously the stock will continue being volatile because so much of the valuation is dependent on high expectations of future growth, and those can change quickly.
But simply the market is realizing that there aren’t any real competitors yet who can compete at a cost level. And what is bullish is Tesla is expected to unveil new battery plans that will show ways to produce batteries even more cheaply. This would be extremely bullish.
2nd big potential stock mover is any progress on FSD (not that I believe they can). If they start letting cars drive themselves on surface streets, investors could overhype their potential for FSD robotaxis and the stock would surge.
Seriously the probability of Tesla getting to FSD robotaxis in a few years is low (<5% chance I think), but that market would be a few trillion dollars and signify a share price of > $5,000-10,000. 5% of $10,000 is still an additional $500 of expected value 
TSLA is not that great a stock to invest in except for those like @wuqijun who knew Elon Musk personally and invested very early. I only know about TSLA not long ago so have I invested in TSLA my return would be meh.
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If you are going to cherry pick timeframes, sure.
I would counter with a 7 year timeframe, or 6 month 
For me the clue with Tesla came in 2012/2013 when the Model S started appearing all over the Peninsula. Automotive manufacturing is notorious for being difficult to enter…every new company that’s tried in the last ~50 years has been met with cost overruns and quality issues that quickly put them out of business (think DMC DeLorean). And then here comes the Model S in late 2012 as a handsome, fast and amazingly reliable car that they were able to quickly scale to 10s of thousands of units per year with their only prior experience being the essentially hand built roadster. The crash test results and endorsement from Consumer Reports were the icing on the cake. All of the early adopters were raving about them. Tesla was doing something right. The last consumer product I can think of that was this compelling was the original iPhone (actually, there are a lot of analogies between what Apple did with the phone and Tesla is trying to do with the car). At the time the stock was ~$30/share…should have bought more like Wuqijun.
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Could he have known Elon musk if he wasn’t in SV?
Yes. I saw the same and should have taken the clue. One of the biggest advantages of living here is that Bay Area is a trend setter. Many things happened here first.
I still don’t like Tesla much but the fervor and emotion it roused in people is amazing. Every quarter end many Tesla owners volunteer without pay to help with delivery. How many companies in the world are so loved by their customers? Would any iPhone owners volunteer in Apple stores?
I think a big part of Tesla’s success comes from its environmental mission. In a way it benefits from the secular shift of climate change. I am starting to think about the investment opportunities this shift will offer. I mentioned in another thread beyond meat is another beneficiary. On the flip side PG&E is a casualty of climate change.
You might want to re-read the post carefully again. Don’t behave like a certain blogger who like to blindly quote cliche’ which is not applicable and shoot like a cowboy. I don’t cherry pick timeframes, they are relevant timeframes for my situation. You’ve cherry picked timeframe for favorable comparison.
This point is irrelevant to me.Too old to participate as W2 slaves. It doesn’t matter that all your points are cool and applicable to young techies if I can’t do any of those things, they are irrelevant and no good to me.
If you want to delve into every major trends, you might want to know the biggest gains are by biotech and pharmacies startups … use your stock screeners to verify.
The biggest flops are also biotech and pharmas. I lack the knowledge to discern winners from losers. I heard some bullish murmurs on NVTA, another SF company by the way. I don’t know enough to tell whether it’s legit or not.
But fake meat? Yes, I am on board. Can’t imagine 100 years from now civilized society will still raise and kill animals for food.
In case you don’t know, most of the life sciences startups are in SF 
Exploit your location advantage 
Good point but I prefer to eat fresh veggies and fruits rather than fake meats made from them. Try out Beyond Meat burgers, meh. I’m in if some1 can create a minimum maintenance nursery where I can plant my favorite veggies, and fruit “trees” all year round.