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The Tesla Model 3.
- Tesla booked a profit in the fourth quarter, after doing the same in Q3.
- Tesla has now changed things for Wall Street, for its competition, and for customers.
- The biggest takeaway is that Tesla might now become a much more boring company.
Tesla reported a second consecutive profitable quarter last week - something skeptics thought might never happen.
It wasn't what Wall Street expected, but after 15 years of losing money, Tesla finally turned in six months of moneymaking.
The unprecedented achievement means that we now have to look at Tesla ... differently. In some ways, Tesla just got much simpler. But in another way, it got more complicated.
Here are five takeaways from Tesla's fourth-quarter results:
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