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05-12-2009, 01:24 PM
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05-12-2009, 01:28 PM
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05-12-2009, 01:29 PM
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#24 | | Super Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Aptos, California Posts: 1,551 | Quote:
Originally Posted by doug  but with a negative spin: | Well, you have to give them points for their consistency. No new scary optimism to be found here. | |
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05-12-2009, 01:32 PM
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#25 | | Super Moderator
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The badly mismanaged electric-car startup quickly blew through Valor's money;
| Really? He doesn't seem that upset about it... Quote: |
Tesla requires hundreds of millions of dollars more than it has to make the Model S a reality — which is why Morgenstern's talk of new money is so interesting.
| Because they might get the money in and prove you wrong? Quote: |
and yet a new investor would be understandably reluctant to invest if Musk's replacement as CEO weren't a condition of the deal.
| So you've seen the term sheet now, have you Owen? Quote: |
And then there's this: Morgenstern uttered something particularly damning on the phone. He said the investment will "make people believers that the sedan will be produced."
| Oh come on... play the video and see what tone this was said in. Are your readers that lazy that they won't bother? I guess that is what you are banking on and what you are hoping will be replicated ad infinitum elsewhere.
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05-12-2009, 02:50 PM
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#26 | | P463 Model S
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Originally Posted by dpeilow Oh come on... play the video and see what tone this was said in. Are your readers that lazy that they won't bother? I guess that is what you are banking on and what you are hoping will be replicated ad infinitum elsewhere. | Probably has less to do with them being lazy, more with them loving to hear negative on Tesla. Same comments every time. | |
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05-13-2009, 07:33 AM
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#27 | | Head Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stanford, California Posts: 3,605 | The Daily Start-Up: Tesla Investor Caught (Or Acting) On Tape - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ Quote: |
As AutoblogGreen first pointed out, a mysterious video surfaced Sunday on YouTube in which a Tesla Motors investor blabs about an upcoming financing round, which would be significant considering all the financial troubles the electric-car maker ran into several months ago. In the shaky cellphone video, the investor - which Gawker identifies as Victor Morgenstern, chairman of Chicago private-equity fund Valor Equity Partners - offers to take a “young man” for a ride around the block in his Tesla Roadster, and just as he begins driving he answers a phone call and says, “I think there’s going to be a big announcement coming Monday or Tuesday which should, No. 1, make people big believers that the [Model S electric sedan] is going to be produced…it’s an investment from a strategic….” The person who filmed the video and posted it on YouTube, is apparently a 14-year-old named Mike, according to his Facebook account linked from the video. Tesla hasn’t announced anything this week, and it’s not clear yet whether this is a scoop, a hoax, or, most likely judging by the timing and substance of the phone call, a bizarre publicity stunt….
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05-13-2009, 07:47 AM
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#28 | | Super Moderator
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As AutoblogGreen first pointed out...
| Errr... As AutoblogGreen actually pointed out, the significance of the video was first posted on the Tesla Motors Club Forum. They credit it in the article and everything...
Too complicated for WSJ I suppose. | |
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05-13-2009, 09:52 AM
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#29 | | Head Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stanford, California Posts: 3,605 | Actually, ABG only bothers to list TMC as a source at the bottom of the post. The "keen observer" that Sam refers to is the kid that took the video. | |
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05-13-2009, 12:12 PM
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#30 | | Tesla Fan
Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5,952 | This was a story that was going to happen regardless. Many watch youtube for Tesla videos, and I just happened to be the first one to notice it this time.
I guess the people that run this site like to get linkback credit for more traffic, but I don't mind it being uncredited.
By the way, it is Wednesday and still no news...  | |
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