[peeters]

So there's the real story. Who is this financer (or group) with ~40 billion in capital that is willing to bet long on Tesla? That's really interesting to me, if Musk is being truthful here.

[pooya13]

Fidelity or Google comes to mind. I think at some point they were having discussions with Google but then the company overcame the difficult conditions so they halted the talks: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/21/google-al...

[kamaal]

Just guessing.

That could be Softbank. They already have $200 billion in investment lined up.

And apparently they are to some extent disillusioned investing in internet companies.

[Diederich]

Totally, totally random thought, but I figured I'd record it, even though it doesn't seem to make sense.

Bezos?

[glbrew]

I highly doubt it. For starters his wealth isn't liquid enough. He would need to give up shareholder control of Amazon or take on huge debt with his control of Amazon as collateral.

[peeters]

What, timed with an announcement of a merger between Blue Origin and SpaceX? :)

[RankingMember]

That wouldn't be the worst idea in the world considering the cost of spaceflight to begin with and the duplicate work they're undoubtedly doing.

[ranman]

I could be wrong, but I don't imagine Elon likes Bezos very much.

[whataboutism]

1. Apple 2. Saudi's 3. China

[xbmcuser]

Google/Alphabet. Larry Page has stated that instead of giving away his billions to charity he would prefer to give it to someone like Musk that is trying to fix world scale problems.