The Late Charlie Munger on Elon Musk and Tesla
Re: my post today on the still-vaporware Tesla Roadster and Benedict Evans’s maxim that “Elon Musk is a bullshitter who delivers”, a reader sent me this YouTube short of Charlie Munger’s answer to a question at Berkshire Hathaway’s 2020 shareholder meeting regarding Tesla’s volatility and Musk’s self-promotion. Munger said:My thoughts are two. I would never buy it, and I would never sell
it short.[Audience laughs.]I have a third comment. There was a man out in Los Angeles for
years named Howard Ahmanson. He once said something that I’ve taken
to my heart: “Never underestimate the man who overestimates
himself.” I think Elon Musk is peculiar and he may overestimate
himself, but he may not be wrong all the time.