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A headline from 2007.

S&P 500 vs Bitcoin Returns 1 yr: +9% +58% 2 yr: +36% +294% 3 yr: +63% +407% 4 yr: +42% +177% 5 yr: +92% +1,002% 6 yr: +107% +1,138% 7 yr: +115% +1,512% 8 yr: +146% +3,926% 9 yr: +188% +15,654% 10 yr: +186% +45,060%

Past 10 NBA team sales: 2025 Lakers: $10 billion 2025 Celtics: $6.1 billion 2023 Mavs: $3.9 billion 2022 Suns: $4 billion 2023 Hornets: $3 billion 2019 Nets: $3.3 billion 2017 Rockets: $2.2 billion 2014 Clippers: $2 billion 2013 Kings: $534 million 2012 Grizzlies: $377 million

In 1983, less than 1% of the population owned a computer. Singer Barry White urged people to learn how to code.

Steve Jobs on tech industry’s tension between evolution and revolution.

In 2000, Sergey Brin was on a game show where panelists had to guess who was the real founder of Google. He was not selected.

A headline about Tesla in 2018. The company’s valuation has since risen by nearly $1 trillion.

Jeff Bezos at his desk in 1999. At the time, Walmart was more than ten times more valuable than Amazon. Today, Amazon is nearly three times more valuable than Walmart.

In 2016, Elon Musk was asked if Tesla would make a self-driving car. He predicted a future of autonomous vehicles with no steering wheel. And the audience laughed.

On this day in 2012: Tesla delivers the first Model S vehicles. It delivered 2,650 vehicles that year. This year, Tesla is expected to deliver more than 1.5 million vehicles.

The Tesla AI robotaxi launch begins in Austin this afternoon with customers paying a $4.20 flat fee!

Population of the world: 2023:   +8 billion 2011:     +7 billion 1999:    +6 billion 1987:     +5 billion 1974:     +4 billion 1960:    +3 billion 1927:     +2 billion 1804:    +1 billion

Fred Smith had the idea for FedEx in college. He wrote about it in a term paper on the fast approaching computerized society. “I didn’t get a particularly good grade,” he later recalled. He then crystallized the idea while serving in the Vietnam War.