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Season 3, Episode 1: Tesla

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Elon Musks Roadster

The company has a hundred employees at this point, working on the first production redster candidate. They raise another forty million dollars at this point elon invests twelve million personally, and they raise the rest from a group of v c who are now finally lik coke. The alise is not mass market, and it's a hundred thousand dollar car. So they're marketing it to people would be comparing it against, like, oh, my gosh, this is such a nice luxury vehicle to get into. That, of course, leads to tons of delays side un fact, during the summer of two thousand five, as they're working on it, they take one of the prototypes to...

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