Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It's Tuesday, May 8th, and I'm your host, Vincent Shen.

Rounding out to cast for today's consumer and retail discussion, we have Senior Motley full contributor Osset Sharma who's beaming into the full HQ studio

via Skype, hey I said, hope all as well.

All is great, Vince. You make that sound so technologically advanced. I almost feel like I'm going

to materialize in the studio that would be cool at some point maybe we'll have you

hologram into the studio sitting next to me it'll be a much more fun experience that way for me at least.

Absolutely.

So I'm going to thank you right off the bat for bringing the main topic of this episode to my attention.

I hadn't been following this story as much but since

you brought it up it's come up in the kind of editorial pod and among some of the

other industry focus hosts they've talked about it So we're reaching outside the consumer and retail sector

just for inspiration to kind of kick off this conversation.

And I said, please chime in with any thoughts or color

you want to add as we walk through some of the background for the show

and the topic today. But last week Tesla reported its first quarter earnings for 2018 and there

was of course a call with analysts to go over the latest results and during the

Q&A portion of that call company founder and CEO Elon Musk he spent a few minutes

answering typical Wall Street analyst questions before he just lost interest

and passed the mic to Galileo Russell, who's a follower of the company who runs a technology and investing focused channel on YouTube.

So at one point during the earnings call, Galileo starts asking about Tesla's supercharger

network and why the company is open to collaborating with

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