Back to episode — Episode 2953 CWSA 09/09/25
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I remember hearing or seeing Adam Townsend. He did a post several years back in which he said that Tesla was actually an energy company in disguise as a car company. And I don't know if I buy that 100% or that he even meant it 100%. But how big could that business be? I mean, if they're the top or even number two in the business of putting in enormous battery packs, then the interesting thing is that he's got a company, the megapack battery thing, that would be benefiting from AI because AI is going to require that every form of energy and saving energy and storing energy becomes super valuable because we can't get enough of it. AI will be sucking up all that energy. So he's got a very compatible company there.
And at the same time, speaking of compatible companies, his SpaceX company is doing a deal to buy a whole bunch of spectrum from EchoStar, which apparently will be key to turning their satellites because SpaceX is a very compatible company with Starlink, you know, the network of Elon Musk satellites that are around the Earth already. They were launched by SpaceX. So those are the two most compatible companies you could imagine.
Except if you could have a satellite company, what would be the best thing you could introduce next? A phone that happens to work, or you work with somebody else on phone service all over the globe. And it looks like that's what he's going to do. So he's going to have batteries all over the globe and AI is going to drive that demand. He's already got satellites all over the world and they're not far away from turning that into worldwide phone service that would compete with everybody. Apparently the speeds would be great, the latency would be low and he's really looking to take on cell phones. I mean just imagine the enormity of that business and Musk is sort of, you know, year after year he's just building these assets that can walk right up to the domain of the cell phone industry and possibly take over the entire industry because he's built exactly the right compatible assets from rockets to satellites to batteries, you know, which you need for phones. And then of course they have access to the best engineers and it all kind of comes together, doesn't it?
Anyway, there's an engineer at Meta, or he was at Meta, who claims that
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WhatsApp, the app that's owned by Meta, had some privacy problems. And specifically what he said was there were about 1,500, listen to this, he claims that there were 1,500 WhatsApp engineers that had full access to private user data with no logs, no audits, and no way to know if anything was taken. Now, user data would include their messages, right? So there were 1,500 people who all they had to…
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