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by oblio 1314 days ago
> tesla sits at about 2-3x those two companies combined

Now, when it fell about 50%. I was just behind the news.

At a certain point this graph was true: https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/US-Tesla-m...

Which was just insane.

Why do people care about market cap? Because it shows mindshare. It shows what people care about and where investments should go, preorders, a lot of that stuff.

Plus market cap can be converted into money (not 1:1, but still).