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#112 Former President at Tesla / CEO of DVx Ventures, Jon McNeill: First-Principles

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Is Tesla the Darling That It Is Now?

He's diverting attention away when the business is like on the brink of dying. He lets his people handle all the other stuff. So he's not distracted by that other stuff, which clears then time and space for him to think about new things. When you joined, that was September of 2015? Yeah. What was the state of Tesla like when I joined? We were just releasing Model X. And then we went through a mini manufacturing hell just getting Model X out.

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