GM
General Motors Company
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Also look at market cap vs other car companies like GM and Ford considering the number of cars they produce. It's crazy even when you consider the other stuff Tesla does. 

AMZN GOOG MSFT META PLTR NVDA MU ASML KLAC LRCX NXPI TSM ANET BAC BSX BRKB SON FSLR XLE CF MOS CEG PPG GM WMT PEP SETM INFQ NASA NVEC WLDN WM TMO SLV GLD FCX IAG.
I have a tech-heavy port with diversification into boomer shiznit, a few absolutely wild tickers like NASA and INFQ, and metals + miners. Above are my core positions. Recently, I've added SaaS and will probably keep it: CRM SAP NOW INTU, probably some others that I can't even remember.
I am also like 70% cash in my taxable, where I hold all this stuff. Retirement I just hold index funds.

GM 🤍🤍

Got into $BB on Friday, adding more tomorrow 🚀
bought my first chunk of BlackBerry on friday and gonna continue adding more on tuesday morning 🚀 and yeah before anyone says it, no they aren't just a phone company anymore. they stopped making phones years ago. the whole business now is software, and the part that actually matters is QNX. basically it's an operating system that runs inside cars, the thing powering the dashboard, the screens, the driver assist stuff, all that. it's already running in like 255 million vehicles and the number keeps going up every quarter. if you've been in a newer BMW, Ford, Honda, GM, there's a real good chance QNX is what's running under the hood. the pivot from phones to being the boring but critical software inside cars is the whole story here and i think most people still haven't caught on because they hear "BlackBerry" and tune out.
stuff coming up that could actually move the stock: next earnings in a few weeks, more carmakers announcing what software they're picking for their next gen vehicles (QNX is in a lot of those conversations), and honestly just people slowly realizing this isn't the same company from 2010 anymore 🚀🚀 not telling anyone to buy, just sharing what i'm seeing. anyone else holding or looking at it? 🚀

Also this was fully written by me and not AI

Grok is leasing to Anthropic
Can you imagine if at the height of the boom at the start of cars being affordable, Ford said “hey GM, you wanna use our production line?”

Good point on the bailout flip. It genuinely is ironic. US rescued AIG, Citi, GM, SVB depositors, Boeing forever. China let Evergrande collapse with $300B in liabilities, plus the whole EV graveyard. Imagine the US letting Lehman and GM fail without TARP. Wouldn’t happen.
Two things though.
China bails out plenty, just quietly. Local government debt gets rolled constantly, zombie SOEs from the 90s are still on life support. So it’s more “private firms can fail, state-adjacent ones get saved.” Not that different from the US bailing out the politically connected.
On regulation, that’s where I’d push back. US regulation runs through published rules and courts. You can sue the SEC and win. China’s version is Party discipline and discretionary enforcement. Didi IPO’d in NY in June 2021, regulators destroyed it by July for not waiting. Jack Ma made one speech and Ant’s IPO died two days before listing. No appeal, no court. That’s not regulation, it’s political power dressed up as it.
So yeah, both systems pick winners. Americans just lie to themselves about it. The mechanisms aren’t the same though.

War.
Ford and GM are in talks to help in supplying war equipment for both EU and US.

You're right, that 2008 isn't a good comparison to the present. IF gen AI is all that it is said to be, the dot com bubble might not be either. dot com was a bubble, but eventually (in less than 5 years) a lot of the infrastructure that was created shortly before the dot com crash became the stepping stones to current digital economy and tech businesses. Looking back, the same could be said for railroads: there were too many people getting into the business, followed by bankruptcies, followed by recovery, i.e. ten years later, new rail transit companies benefited greatly from all the prior infrastructure development. Lots of new commerce leading to new tech innovation resulted from the transition to railroads. If genAI is all that is anticipated, then I don't know what new jobs will result from its success. Anthropic CEO guy keeps warning us that there will be 30% unemployment... which implies a huge drop in tax revenue for government, so UBI would be even less feasible than now).
At the moment, there isn't much ROI from genAI according to OpenAI's CFO in 2025. Currently, the big "tech" companies (Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet/Google, Oracle) anticipate spending $720B in 2026 on AI with revenues of 20%
**Also be aware that 90% of AI startups went bankrupt which is a lot higher than the 70% that is typical for startups. This might not mean much because there were a lot of automobile companies in the US in the 1910s through 1930s and most failed. There were a dozen or so that survived, which were enough to avoid becoming an oligopoly, even after they consolidated into Ford, GM, AMC, Chrysler and a few others.

Also look at market cap vs other car companies like GM and Ford considering the number of cars they produce. It's crazy even when you consider the other stuff Tesla does. 

AMZN GOOG MSFT META PLTR NVDA MU ASML KLAC LRCX NXPI TSM ANET BAC BSX BRKB SON FSLR XLE CF MOS CEG PPG GM WMT PEP SETM INFQ NASA NVEC WLDN WM TMO SLV GLD FCX IAG.
I have a tech-heavy port with diversification into boomer shiznit, a few absolutely wild tickers like NASA and INFQ, and metals + miners. Above are my core positions. Recently, I've added SaaS and will probably keep it: CRM SAP NOW INTU, probably some others that I can't even remember.
I am also like 70% cash in my taxable, where I hold all this stuff. Retirement I just hold index funds.

GM 🤍🤍

Got into $BB on Friday, adding more tomorrow 🚀
bought my first chunk of BlackBerry on friday and gonna continue adding more on tuesday morning 🚀 and yeah before anyone says it, no they aren't just a phone company anymore. they stopped making phones years ago. the whole business now is software, and the part that actually matters is QNX. basically it's an operating system that runs inside cars, the thing powering the dashboard, the screens, the driver assist stuff, all that. it's already running in like 255 million vehicles and the number keeps going up every quarter. if you've been in a newer BMW, Ford, Honda, GM, there's a real good chance QNX is what's running under the hood. the pivot from phones to being the boring but critical software inside cars is the whole story here and i think most people still haven't caught on because they hear "BlackBerry" and tune out.
stuff coming up that could actually move the stock: next earnings in a few weeks, more carmakers announcing what software they're picking for their next gen vehicles (QNX is in a lot of those conversations), and honestly just people slowly realizing this isn't the same company from 2010 anymore 🚀🚀 not telling anyone to buy, just sharing what i'm seeing. anyone else holding or looking at it? 🚀

Also this was fully written by me and not AI

Grok is leasing to Anthropic
Can you imagine if at the height of the boom at the start of cars being affordable, Ford said “hey GM, you wanna use our production line?”

Good point on the bailout flip. It genuinely is ironic. US rescued AIG, Citi, GM, SVB depositors, Boeing forever. China let Evergrande collapse with $300B in liabilities, plus the whole EV graveyard. Imagine the US letting Lehman and GM fail without TARP. Wouldn’t happen.
Two things though.
China bails out plenty, just quietly. Local government debt gets rolled constantly, zombie SOEs from the 90s are still on life support. So it’s more “private firms can fail, state-adjacent ones get saved.” Not that different from the US bailing out the politically connected.
On regulation, that’s where I’d push back. US regulation runs through published rules and courts. You can sue the SEC and win. China’s version is Party discipline and discretionary enforcement. Didi IPO’d in NY in June 2021, regulators destroyed it by July for not waiting. Jack Ma made one speech and Ant’s IPO died two days before listing. No appeal, no court. That’s not regulation, it’s political power dressed up as it.
So yeah, both systems pick winners. Americans just lie to themselves about it. The mechanisms aren’t the same though.

War.
Ford and GM are in talks to help in supplying war equipment for both EU and US.

You're right, that 2008 isn't a good comparison to the present. IF gen AI is all that it is said to be, the dot com bubble might not be either. dot com was a bubble, but eventually (in less than 5 years) a lot of the infrastructure that was created shortly before the dot com crash became the stepping stones to current digital economy and tech businesses. Looking back, the same could be said for railroads: there were too many people getting into the business, followed by bankruptcies, followed by recovery, i.e. ten years later, new rail transit companies benefited greatly from all the prior infrastructure development. Lots of new commerce leading to new tech innovation resulted from the transition to railroads. If genAI is all that is anticipated, then I don't know what new jobs will result from its success. Anthropic CEO guy keeps warning us that there will be 30% unemployment... which implies a huge drop in tax revenue for government, so UBI would be even less feasible than now).
At the moment, there isn't much ROI from genAI according to OpenAI's CFO in 2025. Currently, the big "tech" companies (Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet/Google, Oracle) anticipate spending $720B in 2026 on AI with revenues of 20%
**Also be aware that 90% of AI startups went bankrupt which is a lot higher than the 70% that is typical for startups. This might not mean much because there were a lot of automobile companies in the US in the 1910s through 1930s and most failed. There were a dozen or so that survived, which were enough to avoid becoming an oligopoly, even after they consolidated into Ford, GM, AMC, Chrysler and a few others.

Two of the last 3 years. Point taken. But, total up how many GM vehicles, Ford Vehicles, Toyota vehicles versus Tesla.

why GM stonk liked

Saying that Mercedes and GM are the best run car companies is tantamount to hunting for the tallest chihuahua in the room. In aggregate, the auto industry has not even earned its cost of capital over the past 50 years.
If you are looking for long term wealth creation, my advice is to look for tall giraffes, not tall chihuahuas.

GM all, I'm looking to buy this coin as a graduation gift for a super fan of this particular Batman.
I've seen recent sales on our favorite auction site for around $125.
I would be willing to spend $130 shipped and can pay via Zelle.