Jay Vijayan
11 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 17, 2020 by Jay Vijayan · said 11 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Nov 17, 2020 neutral
Vijayan: Elon Musk asked me to return to Tesla, but I declined
“I told this to Elon as well. And I said, I told him when I met him, he said Jay, what about, you know, potentially he was kind of indicating, can you kind of come back? But when I told him it is a bit boring for me. I said, I did what you wanted me to deliver.…”
Nov 17, 2020 neutral
Vijayan: Left VMware for Tesla taking an almost $100,000 base pay cut
“Still, I had to take a pay cut purely in a salary and bonus, because VMware had been a really solid salary and great bonus. And that really stopped almost 100,000 dollars just purely from salary cut perspective. And then on top of it, I had to leave stocks bec…”
Nov 17, 2020
Vijayan's wife lost sleep for six months after he resigned from Tesla
“My wife didn't sleep for six months when I left my job at Tesla, because how many, how much money I left, and people thought how much, you know, trust I established to deal on while it not, it was not working out that great for so many people I had in such a g…”
May 31, 2022 bullish
Oct 18, 2025 positive
Oct 18, 2025
Tekion co-founders took personal loans to buy dealership land for product R&D
“So personally, me and my co-founder, Guru, we took a loan to go buy the land of the dealership because I felt Techyan didn't have money to invest in the land. And then Techyan just invested in buying the dealership only because I felt if we buy the dealership …”
Oct 18, 2025
Oct 18, 2025 positive
Vijayan: Vertical SaaS founders should offer equity to early design partners
“And then once you excite a few customers, ideally recruit them to be, you know, fully open up for your team. And that's what you need. I mean, of course, early days they would say, you know, they may need the software for free or they may need it in for a sign…”
Oct 18, 2025
Vijayan: Tekion raised roughly $30M across its first three rounds
“First round was three million, which was seed, friends and family, and my money as well. And then second round was ten million, I think. And then B was I'm forgetting. So it was not a lot of money. Collectively, we might have raised probably thirty million, I …”
Oct 18, 2025 bullish