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My Tesla Stock Journey: Why I Need to Talk to Elon Musk!

My Tesla Stock Journey: Why I Need to Talk to Elon Musk!

Update: 2025-03-11
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I bought Tesla stock at
the age of 10….



And then things tanked.



I’ve been ready to hit
that sale button so many times on this stock. Did I though?



I’d really like to talk to
Elon Musk about how my generation could affect his stock and the future of
Tesla.



Let’s talk Elon. 



A new episode the Cash Kid
Podcast is underway.





Welcome back to another
episode of the Cash Kid Podcast. I’m your host, the Cash Kid. We took a little
break.. as well… I’m 13…I go to school full-time… I kind of really like to make
good grades… and I made my school’s tennis team and so my parents wanted me to
take a break before recording more episodes. 



But, I’m back and it’s
time to talk about Tesla… and my Tesla stock in particular.



If you didn’t know, here
on the Cash Kid Podcast our mission is the teach my generation (and some
adults) how to earn, save, and invest money earlier in life. The whole premise
of this episode and the Cash Kid movement started because in the 4th grade I was
allowed to play the stock market game as a class challenge in school.



I immediately fell in love
with stocks. I was fascinated how the price of a company’s stock could go up
and down and how someone like me… a 10-year old at the time… could take the
money just sitting in my wallet, invest it and then make more money.



But really, this is what
set the idea in motion. Within a few months, I discovered an app called
Greenlight where I…who was 10 at the time, could purchase fractional shares of
a company and I could purchase stock in a company to try and get a gain.



Now have you ever put
money into something, thought it was going to the moon, and then—BOOM—it
crashes? That’s exactly what happened when I bought my first Tesla stock at
10 years old.



I was pumped! I had saved
my money, did my research, and when Tesla split in 2022, I finally got
my chance to buy a full share for around $250. But then, something
happened that I did NOT expect…



Tesla dropped. 



Hard.



Suddenly, I wasn’t making
money—I was losing money. And as a 10-year-old investor, let me tell
you, watching your first-ever stock go from a bull market to a bear market
is like riding the world’s scariest rollercoaster—except your money is on the
line!

Alright, let’s take it back to 2022.



I had been saving up
money, learning about investing, and watching Tesla for a while. But before I
could invest, Tesla’s stock price was over $1,000 per share—which was way
out of my budget.



But then, Tesla
announced a stock split. If you don’t know what that means, it’s when a
company splits its shares to make them more affordable to investors. So instead
of being $1,000 per share, Tesla dropped to around $250 after the split.
And I jumped on it right away!



I was so excited
because I thought, “This is it! Tesla is the future! I’m about to make BANK!”



But investing doesn’t
always work like that.





 Not long after I
bought my Tesla stock, the market tanked.



In late 2022 and early
2023, the stock market was struggling. Inflation was up, interest rates
were high, and people weren’t spending as much money. It was what some called a
mini-recession—and Tesla was hit hard.



My $250 stock? Dropped
by over $100.



And as a kid investor, let
me tell you, that hurt. I started thinking, "Did I just make a
huge mistake? Should I sell before I lose even more?"



And honestly, part of me
wanted to call up Elon Musk and say, "Dude! What is going on?
Fix this!" 



And my Mom says daily I
would get in the car after school, open up my Greenlight account and check the
price. I was obsessed over how it was performing.



But here’s what I learned—the
stock market isn’t about quick wins. It’s about patience.





One thing I realized is that a company’s stock price isn’t
just about numbers—it’s about people’s confidence in that company. And
Tesla? It’s tied to Elon Musk like no other company.



Whenever Elon does
something big—whether it’s launching a new car, buying Twitter (which he did in
2022 now know as X), or making a statement about politics—the stock moves.



For example:




When Tesla was booming in 2021, people had HUGE confidence in
electric cars. More people were buying Teslas, and investors saw the
company as a tech powerhouse. Boom—stock price went up.
But when Elon
started focusing more on Twitter in 2022, investors started pulling
back on Tesla. Some people thought h
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My Tesla Stock Journey: Why I Need to Talk to Elon Musk!

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Laura Ezzell