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Tesla

also referred to as: teslas

includes Tesla Model 3, Tesla Roadster

10 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Feb 9, 2016 by Tim Draper · said 127 times in 66 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Nathan Latka (32), Or Weiss (6), Cameron Johnson (6), Jack Parmer (5), Ryan Moran (4), Mark Andrich (4), Jim McKelvey (4), Andrey Swiavich (4)

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2016 31 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about Tesla, oldest first

Feb 9, 2016
Assertion Supported
Draper: Elon Musk was not CEO when DFJ funded Tesla
“Actually, I met Elon long before Tesla and Elon was not the CEO when we funded it. A guy named Martin Everhard was.”
Tim Draper Feb 9, 2016 ▶ 12:22 This is The Worlds Most Influential, Powerful Investor with Tim Draper of DFJ Venture (Timothy Draper)
Feb 9, 2016
Assertion Supported
Elon Musk Funded Struggling Tesla on Condition He Could Run It
“Elon was an investor with us, and on board, and then when the company was in a dire straits, Elon said that he put money in if he could run it.”
Tim Draper Feb 9, 2016 ▶ 12:43 This is The Worlds Most Influential, Powerful Investor with Tim Draper of DFJ Venture (Timothy Draper)
Feb 26, 2016 bearish
Opinion
Anyone with $100,000 who wants a Tesla already owns one
“Anybody that has a 100,000 laying around that wants a Tesla already has one.”
Cameron Johnson Feb 26, 2016 ▶ 10:36 Does This Ford Dealership Sell The Most Cars Ever? with Cameron Johnson Ep 9
Feb 26, 2016 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Ford sells 200,000 cars a month; Tesla sells 30,000 a year
“Ford sells 200,000 vehicles in a month. And Tesla will sell about 30,000 this year.”
Cameron Johnson Feb 26, 2016 ▶ 10:08 Does This Ford Dealership Sell The Most Cars Ever? with Cameron Johnson Ep 9
May 4, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zoom serves over 850,000 unique business domains including Uber and Tesla
“We have a little bit over 800 or 50,000 unique business domains, you know, like Uber, like a Tesla, you know, like a Zendesk, Okta, you know.”
Eric Yuan May 4, 2018 ▶ 7:59 1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR
May 9, 2018 positive
Assertion Supported
Tesla's data science team uses Plotly for internal graphing
“So, like a good example is the data science team at Tesla uses us.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 2:04 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
May 9, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tesla refuses cloud software for data science, requiring on-premise deployments
“Even someone like Tesla won't use a cloud product for their data science teams. They want something completely behind their firewall.”
Jack Parmer May 9, 2018 ▶ 2:47 1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers
Mar 29, 2021 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Crowley: Replacing all vehicles with new EVs will take ~100 years
“There's over 1.4 billion vehicles in the world. There's over sixty million new vehicles every year. So if we're going to wait for all of them to become Teslas, it's going to take about a hundred years.”
Norman Crowley Mar 29, 2021 ▶ 2:47 Manufacturing Plant Software Breaks $100m Revenue, Just $38m Raised
Apr 2, 2022 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Weiss: Open-source OPAL is used in production at Tesla, Zapier, and Accenture
“And while Opal is a very young project, it's not even a year old. It's already being used in production in amazing companies like Tesla, Zapier, Accenture, and others.”
Or Weiss Apr 2, 2022 ▶ 11:25 Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time
Nov 17, 2022 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Tesla sold 15,000 cars in a day by making staff salespeople
“He sends an email out to everybody in the company saying you're laid off and you're hired again. And your new job is a sales job... In a day, they sold 15,000 cars.”
Andrey Swiavich Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 2:41 We call 30k cold leads per month and land 5% as customers. Here's the playbook
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