12 Elon Musk & How Tesla Will Change The World — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2017-08-20
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“At Tesla, design and engineering are assigned equal value, and Elon keeps them opposed to each other." Now that Franz had gotten…”
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Focus
“So we talked about that before too, um, that he had a decision.”
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People
“Um, but enough people imp-- uh, so going back to the post, but enough people had been impressed enough by Tesla that…”
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Persistence
“This made Musk sad, so he and the board fired Eberhard as CEO, which made Eberhard sad.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“But what happens there is no one's willing to invest in, um, like the, the, the already existing investors in Tesla are…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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