The End

Hey everybody Rob Maurer here and today I've got a number of personal announcements to make. After more than six years and almost 1500 episodes of Tesla Daily, today's episode will be the last. It almost doesn't feel real to say that, but for a few reasons that I'll talk about, I think that it's time.

大家好，我是Rob Maurer。今天我有一些个人公告要发布。经过超过六年和近1500集的《Tesla Daily》节目，今天的这一集将是最后一集。说出这句话感觉有些不真实，但我想说说一些原因，我认为现在是时候结束了。

Tesla has come such a long way from the first time I turned on the microphone back in 2017. At that point Tesla was worth $20 a share and delivered 230,000 cars. Total. Now we're over 5 million Tesla vehicles on the road. Tesla delivers 230,000 cars every 6 weeks. Tesla's energy storage deployments alone this year might exceed the battery capacity from those first 230,000 cars. The growth has been amazing and we've certainly been through a lot alongside that growth over these last 6 years.

特斯拉已经走过了漫长的路程，从我在2017年第一次打开麦克风的那一刻起。当时，特斯拉的股价为20美元，交付了23万辆汽车。现在我们已经有超过500万辆特斯拉汽车在路上。特斯拉每6周交付23万辆汽车。今年单单特斯拉的能源储存项目可能超过了那23万辆车的电池容量。这种增长令人惊叹，而我们在过去的6年里肯定也经历了很多与此增长一起的挑战。

It was funding secured which led to my first video on YouTube with galley on his channel. The S&P 500 inclusion when I was on the phone with my brokerage during that livestream, interviewed a ton of great people, authors, analysts. Thank you to those people for joining the channel. Quitting my job, getting my first Tesla. The first deliveries of the Model 3, the Model Y, Cybertruck, the S&X refresh, Highland, and my FSD Beta Mega Pack 4680s. These products have turned Tesla into perhaps the most followed company in history. And one of the most valuable for market cap but also for society. Everything we've talked about for years is unfolding right before our eyes and it's nothing short of incredible. It's beautiful.

这些资金的保障，是我在YouTube上与加利频道合作的第一个视频的原因。当我在直播时，接到经纪公司的电话，正值S&P 500的加入，我采访了许多优秀人士，包括作家和分析师。感谢那些为频道做出贡献的人们。辞去我的工作，买到了我的第一辆特斯拉。Model 3、Model Y、Cybertruck、S&X更新版、Highland和我自动驾驶测试版本的Mega Pack 4680s的首批交付都使特斯拉成为了历史上最受关注的公司之一。不仅仅是在市值上最有价值，也在社会上起到了巨大的作用。多年来我们所谈论的一切正在我们眼前发生，简直不可思议。真是太美了。

I'm so proud of what Tesla has accomplished and I'm so lucky to have been able to help hundreds of thousands of people follow along. And that's a responsibility that I've tried to live up to every single day. As Tesla continues to progress, I feel the value of Tesla daily diminishing. That's a good thing. We don't need to analyze Tesla's balance sheet to figure out if Tesla's going to make it. They've made it. I don't need to tell you for the 50th time that the so-called so-called recall is just a software update or that Tesla vehicles are actually the safest on the road. We all know these things now. This wasn't always the case though. There used to just be a handful of people explaining these things. But now there are hundreds, maybe thousands of people creating Tesla content really 24-7.

我为特斯拉取得的成就感到非常自豪，而且能够帮助数以十万计的人紧随其后，我感到非常幸运。这是一个责任，我每天都在努力履行。随着特斯拉的不断进步，我感到特斯拉的价值每天都在减少。这是件好事。我们不需要分析特斯拉的资产负债表来判断它是否能成功。他们已经取得了成功。我不需要再第50次告诉你所谓的召回只是一个软件升级，或者特斯拉的车辆实际上是最安全的。我们现在都知道这些事实。但情况并非总是如此。过去只有少数人解释这些事情。但现在，有数百甚至数千人每天不间断地创建特斯拉的内容。

Anyway, I guess it's a long way of saying that I feel the job that I set out to do to help people really understand what Tesla is and what Tesla can become is complete, at least in this format. Tesla daily, as a channel, is inherently extremely restrictive. It has to be Tesla, it has to be daily, and I've set the precedent that it really needs to cover every little detail. And to be honest, that's been pretty taxing on me. Content creation isn't easy if you want to do it well. And from day one, I think that I've done this the right way. No clickbait, never sold out to advertisers or promoters. I don't even hassle people to like the videos or sign up for Patreon, probably to my detriment. And I've truly strived to make Tesla daily amazing every single day. And that requires a lot of time.

不管怎样，我想这句话的意思是，我完成了我开始做的工作，帮助人们真正理解特斯拉是什么，特斯拉可以成为什么样。至少在这个形式上，特斯拉每日新闻频道本质上是非常有限制的。它必须是关于特斯拉，必须是每天，而且我确立了它真正需要涵盖每个细节的先例。老实说，这对我来说是相当辛苦的。如果你想做得好，创造内容并不容易。从一开始，我想我一直以正确的方式来做这件事。没有点击诱导，从未被广告商或推销者买通。我甚至没有给人们添麻烦让他们喜欢我的视频或者在Patreon上注册，这可能对我不利。我真的努力让特斯拉每日新闻变得每一天都很棒。而这需要很多时间。

Which brings us to the second big reason for this decision. So you may have noticed over the last year that there have been a couple of times where I had to miss a few episodes due to other work as I noted at those times. Well, I haven't said much about it yet. I've been working extremely hard on another project. That project is an investment firm called First Principles Group, or FPG. In many ways, FPG echoes the principles that Tesla daily was established on. Authenticity, transparency, trustworthiness, and accurate, understandable information. And I think as many of us have noticed, it seems like it's far too often that these principles are lacking in the financial industry. We really want to make this better.

这就引出了这个决策的第二个重要原因。也许你在过去一年中注意到了，有几次我因为其他工作的原因而错过了一些节目，我在那些时候已经说明了。嗯，我还没有多说。我一直在为另一个项目努力工作。这个项目是一个叫做First Principles Group（FPG）的投资公司。在很多方面，FPG体现了特斯拉日报建立的原则。真实性、透明度、可靠性和准确、易懂的信息。而我认为，正如我们中的许多人所注意到的，金融行业往往缺乏这些原则。我们真的想要改变这种情况。

So with First Principles Group, we're bringing those principles into financial services like venture capital, wealth management, and others. And I really think we're in a position here to have a huge impact both for our investors, many of which are part of this audience, and for the companies that we invest in. Which I suspect our companies that many here are rooting for. When I started Tesla daily, I truly felt like it might be able to make a difference for people. And I feel the same way about First Principles Group now. Now managing this over the last year while doing Tesla daily has been pretty crazy. Some 100 hour weeks where I had to pause the podcast, as I mentioned. But we're on a great path here.

所以，通过First Principles Group，我们将这些原则引入风险投资、财富管理等金融服务领域。我真的认为，我们在这个位置上可以对我们的投资人（其中许多都是这个听众的一部分）和我们投资的公司产生巨大影响。我怀疑，我们的公司很可能是这里的许多人所支持的。当我开始《特斯拉日报》时，我真的觉得它可能会对人们产生影响。现在，我对First Principles Group有同样的感觉。在过去的一年里，同时管理这两者确实很疯狂。有些星期我工作了100个小时，不得不暂停播客，正如我之前提到的。但我们正在走上正确的道路。

And I think the investments we have made into what we believe are some of the most exciting future defining companies that exist will have a real impact. And it's awesome to support their growth and really make a difference here. And we're looking forward to growing alongside those companies for many years to come. This is important. And right now, for me, it needs to be the focus.

我认为我们对一些被我们认为是未来最具潜力的公司所进行的投资将产生真实的影响。支持他们的发展并真正发挥作用是非常棒的事情。我们期待未来多年与这些公司一起成长。这非常重要。对我来说，现在它需要成为我们的重点关注。

We've got a great group of investors, got a great team with myself and Ben Holland as managing partners. Ben has been listening to Tesla daily really since the beginning. I've known him for many years now. I live about 10 minutes away from him now in Chicago. And the simplest thing I could say about Ben is that he gets it. He shares the values and the principles that are so important to me that we just kind of talked about. He understands the problems and the opportunities that we've been discussing here for years. And is just a good guy trying to make some pretty cool things happen. Prior to working on FPG full time, he was an executive director of investments at Oppenheim or he's a certified financial planner, CFP. So he's got a lot of great experience and industry knowledge. And it's been amazing building this with Ben.

我们有一群伟大的投资者，以我和本·霍兰德作为管理合伙人的优秀团队。本从一开始就一直在关注特斯拉的动态，我们已经认识了很多年。我现在住在芝加哥，离他只有10分钟的路程。简单说，本是个能理解并认同我所重视的价值观和原则的人，我们之间有过许多关于我们多年来讨论的问题和机会的交流。他也是个努力实现一些很酷的事情的好人。在全职从事FPG之前，他担任过Oppenheim的投资执行董事，也是认证金融规划师（CFP）。因此，他拥有丰富的经验和行业知识。与本一起建立这个项目是如此美妙。

So our website is at firstprincibles.group. If you want to learn more or stay updated, make sure to fill out the contact form there and we'll be able to share a lot more information about FPG. I know also we've got a lot of people in this audience that could be a great part of the FPG team as well. So if you think you might be able to contribute really in any way, we do have a jobs page up on the site. So also check that out.

所以我们的网站地址是firstprincibles.group。如果您想了解更多或保持更新，请务必填写联系表单，我们将能够分享关于FPG的更多信息。我知道我们的观众中也有很多人可能会成为FPG团队的重要一员。因此，如果您认为自己可能以任何方式做出贡献，我们网站上也有招聘页面。所以也请查看一下。

I'm as excited for this next step with FPG as I am sad about the closing of the incredible chapter that Tesla daily has been. Even though it's coming to an end, I do still want to be here to talk about all of the amazing things that I'm interested in. I do still want to cover Tesla closely. And my point of view on Tesla is unchanged. I'll still do our normal earnings coverage next week. And I'll be here to talk about major developments, but it'll be less frequent, which I think I'm better suited for anyway. I'm much more of an analysis person than I am a news person. I'm trying to take a little bit more time on X2 as that advances. If I can get subscription set up, I think it'd be fun to set aside a couple hours and just chat with people, do and ask me anything, stuff like that. But in general, I'd say I'm just looking forward to a little bit more flexibility with content and seeing how that evolves over time.

我对FPG的下一步同样感到兴奋，也为Tesla daily惊人篇章的结束感到悲伤。尽管它即将结束，我仍然想要在这里讨论我感兴趣的所有令人惊叹的事情。我仍然希望密切关注特斯拉。我的观点没有改变。下周，我仍然会进行正常的财报报道。我会继续讨论重大发展，并且会更加频繁，这也更适合我。我更倾向于分析而非新闻人员。随着X2的进展，我试图花更多的时间。如果我可以设置订阅，我觉得设定几个小时来与人们聊天，做问答等等，会很有趣。总体而言，我期待着在内容上有更多的灵活性，并看看它随时间的演变如何。

I would say though, I do need just a bit of a break in general on content as well. It's been a great six years. I could not have done this without the amazing support from this audience. When I started, I didn't really think Tesla would last six months and now we're here six years later. Without people stepping up, offering support, offering encouragement, sharing with others, it really didn't stand a chance. I'm forever grateful to each and every one of you. For those that have asked in the past about a way to say thank you, Patreon is still there, but there are a number of different one-time options in the description today if you would like to show your appreciation for Tesla daily over the years. Only one to two percent contribute financially and while YouTube ad revenue definitely helps, those direct contributions are really, really what made this possible for the last six years. So I just want to say I'm especially thankful to that small group. It's far too many people to note here, but it means so much to me that I wanted to do that anyway. So it might be a boring video. I'll tell you that right now, but you'll also find a link in the description to that today as well.

我想说一下，总体上我确实需要休息一下。过去的六年非常棒。没有这个观众的惊人支持，我不可能做到这一切。当我开始的时候，我真的没想到特斯拉能坚持六个月，而现在我们已经过去了六年。如果没有人站出来，提供支持、鼓励和分享给其他人，这个节目真的没有机会存在下去。我永远感激你们每一个人。对于那些过去问过怎样表示感谢的人，Patreon仍然在那里，但在今天的描述中还提供了其他一次性的选择，如果你想对特斯拉日报这些年来的支持表示感激的话。只有一到两个百分点的人进行了经济上的贡献，尽管YouTube广告收入确实有所帮助，但那些直接的贡献才是让过去六年成为可能的重要原因。所以我想特别感谢那个小团体。这里有太多人无法一一列举，但对我来说意义非凡，所以我还是想这么做。所以这可能是一个无聊的视频。我现在就告诉你，但在今天的描述中也会找到链接。

I do also want to especially thank my video editor Jossum for being such an awesome, phenomenal partner with the video editing over the years. This time in my life has been one that I never expected, I never imagined, and I'll never forget. It's been an honor to be a part of your lives for a few minutes every day for the last few years and I'll continue to look forward to our time together in the future, even if it is a little bit less frequent. I wish you all the very best and as always, thank you for listening.

我也要特别感谢我在视频剪辑方面合作无间的、了不起的佐姆。这段时光是我从未预料到、从未想象过的，我永远都不会忘记。能够在过去几年里每天与你们共度几分钟，我感到非常荣幸，也期待着未来我们在一起的时光，即使频率可能会少一些。我祝愿你们一切都好，一如既往地感谢你们的倾听。