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General Musings on Life & Entreprenuership

The iCar could Make Apple a $2+ Trillion Company in 10 Years.

(02/20/2015) Mark A. Cenicola

If Chamath Palihapitiya is correct in his recent tweet storm about the rollout of the iCar, my opinion is that Apple will become a $2+ Trillion company over the next decade:

chamath
When (not if) $AAPL builds a car it will be lo-cost, all electric. And it will sell them in China FIRST. And sell 100M+ of them.
2/20/15, 8:40 AM
chamath
2/ frustrating to see how ppl are so narrow minded and don't understand that the "developing markets" are now bigger than "developed" mkts.
2/20/15, 8:41 AM
chamath
3/ I can't think of another brand that is a bigger sign of economic upward mobility amongst middle class in China and India
2/20/15, 8:42 AM
chamath
3/ you already see it in China w Xaomi and AAPL. You buy a Xaomi phone UNTIL you can afford an iPhone and then switch en masse.
2/20/15, 8:43 AM
chamath
5/ the other thing is that this "signalling" of economic prosperity has played out here in the US for decades.
2/20/15, 8:45 AM
chamath
@michaelgruchy yes. They will build a $30-50k car w amazing leasing terms (which they can self finance) and then walk price up over time.
2/20/15, 8:49 AM
chamath
@michaelgruchy This would be an amazing use of $180B in cash stashed around the world...
2/20/15, 8:50 AM
chamath
6/ remember when a Lexus was sign of prosperity. I think we saw "peak Lexus" when Kanye put a line about leasing a Lexus in CollegeDropout.
2/20/15, 8:59 AM
chamath
@bdnice1 TSLA was first. Always better to be "First to be second". See $FB vs Friendster, $GOOG vs Excite etc...
2/20/15, 9:02 AM
chamath
@mdcohen @bdnice1 Has to be electric to work in China and India...they are heading for an environmental reckoning at current course + speed.
2/20/15, 9:07 AM
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