Episode 391: Q4 Earnings Call Highlights and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Tesla held its Q4 earnings call, and as always I’ve got the highlight clips from Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team as well as analysis of all the big news from the event, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.7 | Tesla held its Q4 earnings call, and as always I've got the highlight clips from |
| 0:09.1 | Elon Musk and the Tesla Executive Team, as well as analysis of all the big news from the event and |
| 0:14.9 | more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:36.0 | happening, friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey, |
| 0:38.0 | and this is Ride the Lightning episode 391 for January 29, 2023. I've got two sleepy pups to my left here, but I am |
| 0:47.5 | wide awake for you. There is so much to get to this week with the Q4 earnings call the shareholder letter lots of |
| 0:55.0 | interesting stuff to talk about but real quick I had forgotten to mention on |
| 0:59.7 | last week's podcast after the Franz interview that I had the good fortune to visit |
| 1:05.1 | unplugged performance while I was at the Tesla Design Studio |
| 1:09.6 | interviewing Franz because as you may remember from the interview that I did with |
| 1:13.7 | unplugged performance co-founder Ben Schaffer last year |
| 1:17.2 | unplugged performance and Tesla are as Ben explains in the interview by a |
| 1:22.2 | crazy coincidence they are neighbors in the same industrial complex in Hawthorne California |
| 1:29.6 | just just sort of within the Los Angeles area. |
| 1:32.8 | And so after I got done with France, |
| 1:34.4 | I had emailed Ben ahead of time. |
| 1:36.8 | And he said, yeah, come on over. |
| 1:38.0 | So I just walked over there, because my flight |
| 1:40.4 | wasn't until much later in the day. And their director, James, James |
| 1:45.7 | Headland, he was nice enough to meet up with me. Ben was actually out of town as |
| 1:49.5 | it had turned out, but James was a super nice guy. He walked me around their whole very rapidly growing facility. |
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