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Elon Musk Boasts Tesla Will Be the Biggest Company in the World. Or Maybe Not.


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Elon Musk took to Twitter to make quite a prediction about his electric vehicle company, Tesla.

“I think there is a [greater than] 0% chance Tesla could be the biggest company,” the CEO tweeted Friday, referring to the potential for his company’s full self-driving software to create new stock market value “probably within a few months.”

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