Fireside Chat with Elon Musk - 2012/7/12

[TEG]

Apparently he does have a female personal assistant...

 

[VolkerP]

Someone care to start a new thread on that Hyperloop in the Cars-and-Transportation sub forum? Mods could move stuff there.

 

[TEG]

Someone care to start a new thread on that Hyperloop in the Cars-and-Transportation sub forum? Mods could move stuff there.

There is one there now:
Hyperloop
I let the mods of that forum know that it could make sense to move the hyperloop posts from this thread into it (if they want.)

 

[doug]

To me, this was the most interesting part of the interview:

Who Made the Bigger Mistake in the Botched Series C for Tesla: Elon Musk or John Doerr? | PandoDaily

I wonder what the negatives were of going with VantagePoint. It sounds like Elon thinks they should have gone with Kleiner even though they couldn't get John Doerr.

 

[brianman]

@doug - "quality > quantity"

 

[vfx]

Marry for love, not money.

 

[DavidM]

Thanks for the link. This was a great interview. Really provides a view into Elon's mind (a bit). Just wondering, how many years it will take before Elon considers Tesla Motors to be a full success (objective realized).

 

[smorgasbord]

The best part for me was when Musk went into full geek mode talking about what was wrong with the 3rd (I think) rocket launch.

 

[doug]

@doug - "quality > quantity"

umm, thanks. I got that much. I was talking about the details Elon didn't give. Series C was back in 2006. A bunch of investors came on board at that point, including DFJ, JP Morgan, and the Google guys among others. So why was VantagePoint singled out as a negative? What were the ramifications down the line? Was the other guy at Kleiner that wanted the deal Ray Lane, who went on to be Fisker's COB?