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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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”