But the 56-year-old hedge fund manager has an opinion on Tesla's high-flying stock - and it's bad. Dressed in khakis and a baby-blue polo shirt when we met recently for drinks at the Pierre hotel's art deco cocktail lounge in midtown Manhattan, Spiegel is a wiry ball of energy who explains how selling commercial real estate to guys running garbage and garment companies in the Bronx and Queens taught him that business is "sharklike." He's jazzedupon two Diet Cokes and talks almost nonstop about Tesla's financial woes, ranting about what he calls the deceptiveness of Musk, the man whose supporters believe is the reigning visionary of Silicon Valley following the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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