{"id":2171,"date":"2025-11-14T15:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/investor-ron-baron-says-tech-selloff-an-opportunity-wont-sell-own-tesla-stake\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:01:43","slug":"investor-ron-baron-says-tech-selloff-an-opportunity-wont-sell-own-tesla-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/investor-ron-baron-says-tech-selloff-an-opportunity-wont-sell-own-tesla-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Investor Ron Baron says tech selloff an opportunity, won&#8217;t sell own Tesla stake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108226083\">\n<div role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108226083\" class=\"PlaceHolder-wrapper\" data-vilynx-id=\"7000395608\" data-test=\"VideoPlaceHolder\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-videoEmbed\" id=\"InlineVideo-0\" data-test=\"InlineVideo\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-inlineThumbnailContainer\"><span class=\"InlineVideo-videoButton\"\/><span\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Billionaire investor Ron Baron isn&#8217;t flinching during the latest tech selloff, and he&#8217;s certainly not touching his own <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\">Tesla<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> shares, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The longtime growth investor said he sees the pullback as a chance to spot bargains, even as volatility has rattled the biggest names in tech recently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not very much,&#8221; Baron said Friday on CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221; when asked what he&#8217;s doing amid the drawdown. &#8220;Just looking and trying to understand where opportunities are and try to take advantage of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His conviction is especially intense when it comes to Tesla, one of his signature bets. He recalled selling a third of Baron Funds&#8217; Tesla holding a few years ago due to criticism from his clients and the media about the significant concentration in a single stock. Baron emphasized that his personal position remains entirely intact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sold 30% for clients. I did not sell personally a single share,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 40% of his personal net worth is invested in the electric-vehicle maker, alongside 25% in SpaceX and about 35% in Baron mutual funds.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla shares are down 18% from their 52-week high and were on track to open 5% lower on Friday as investors this week rethink the AI-related shares that have led the bull market.<\/p>\n<p>Baron said he&#8217;s already made about $8 billion from Tesla over the years, and he believes he could make five times that over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Baron recounted a promise he made to the board of his mutual funds when he sought approval decades ago to invest in public stocks, a pledge that effectively binds him to Tesla and SpaceX for life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told the board, &#8216;If you let me invest a certain amount of money, then I will promise that I won&#8217;t sell any of my stock. I will be the last person out of the stock,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;I will not sell a single share of my shares until my clients sold 100% of their shares. &#8230; And I don&#8217;t expect to sell in my lifetime Tesla or SpaceX.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire investor Ron Baron isn&#8217;t flinching during the latest tech selloff, and he&#8217;s certainly not touching his own Tesla shares, he said. The longtime growth investor said he sees the pullback as a chance to spot bargains, even as volatility has rattled the biggest names in tech recently. &#8220;Not very much,&#8221; Baron said Friday on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2186,1883,2187,2185,1868,627,582,617,741,639],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-baron","tag-investor","tag-opportunity","tag-ron","tag-sell","tag-selloff","tag-stake","tag-tech","tag-tesla","tag-wont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}