Tesla's Founders On Elon Musk And The Early Days
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2021
- Elon Musk is the most famous CEO of Tesla, but he's not the company's founder. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded the company in 2003 and were the original executives. CNBC sat down with them to talk about the idea for Tesla Motors, the battery, Elon Musk and building its first car, the all-electric Roadster.
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Tesla Founders On Elon Musk And The Early Days
"We're still share holders".
"This interview was taped Oct. 28, 2019".
Since the interview was taped, Tesla's value has increased 13 times.
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FYI...the links in this reply are spam and have NOTHING to do with Elon or the stock holdings in Tesla that these two gentlemen have.
@@dm4789 Yes, I noticed that. Lot of that stuff these days.
Tesla price, not Tesla value.
i guess they are smiling rn😁
The founder on the right looked so anxious when the other guy started talking about how they first tested the safety of lithium ion at his house.
LOL
@@osamabinladen824 Elon akbarrr
🤣🤣🤣🤣
These guys are jealous. Elon put down $6.5 million of the $7.5 million to start Tesla. Elon literally put all the money down 6 months after the "paper work" was filed to incorporate Tesla. Without Elon, Tesla did not exist.
These guys had the idea, but Elon absolutely is a founder. Eberhard even agreed in 2009 that Elon was a co-founder. These guys are jealous.
Omg these guys are not jeaolus. They had the idea and invention and Elon had the money to be financier. A lot of the times inventors don't have the money to put thier products into commerce.
Can't believe these two are still mates because beard man constantly talks over calm polite man😂😂😂
Thinking the same and thought a) I can see why he got divorced, and b) he's still fairly likeable :-) and c) love 'calm, polite man's reactions :-)
I think 'mates' can be used interchangeably here.
Beard guy = Martin Eberhard, who Musk said in an interview, was the worst person he has ever known in his life.
Looking at his demeanor, Martin Eberhard looks like he might have ADHD. Also eccentric and nerdy.
@Larry T possibly. Who knows what the real truth is.
Opposites attract.
I can imagine that Martin(the beard guy) is always the one making the presentation because he is forward. While Marc(the polite guy) is the one who convinces the investors because he is more intuitive.
Without these guys, there would be no Tesla. Without Musk, Tesla wouldn't be where it is today. I guess the lesson is that sometimes people cross paths for a good reason & things work out the way they do for the better.
Without Musk Tesla would be dead. Without these two Musk would've bought some other electric car company.
@@gofish7388 It really seems more like: without some rich person who was semi-frivolous with their money, Tesla wouldn't exist. I don't think Musk has any unknown qualities, apart from other millionaires and billionaires, that would have made or broken Tesla.
Without Nikola Tesla, there would be no Tesla.
@@jmr9923 no the other person's statement was more accurate
@@osamabinladen824 damn bin laden u spitting facts.
Things Eberhard and Tarpenning won't mention:
* That they in turn are denying Gage and Cocconi credit (the people who actually built the powertrain that they wanted to put in a Lotus
* That when Gage and Cocconi directed Musk to them, he was already working on starting an EV company with the exact same business plan as Eberhard and Tarpenning (though he was pursuing using a Noble as the chassis - same powertrain, though)
* That when Musk was introduced to them, they had basically a shell of a company with no tech of its own and didn't even have the trademark rights to their own name. They were hardly any further along than Musk was.
* That the reason Elon was only the fourth CEO was that despite repeated attempts by others to get him to take the role, he kept refusing, because he was busy with SpaceX
* That Eberhard was kicked out of the CEO role not by Elon, but by a unanimous decision of the board, including a person he personally appointed, for repeatedly lying and hiding information about the company's dire straits - dire straits that he led the company into.
* That Eberhard was literally quoted as saying that if anyone finds out about [what was going on], he'd be fired. (He was)
* That the board wanted to sue Eberhard due to how much he had screwed them over, but decided not to because it would be bad PR.
* That despite Eberhard - like Musk - being independently wealthy, he put little of his own money into the company; Musk shouldered the risk. Including nearly bankrupting himself cleaning up Eberhard's mess.
wow I love going to the comments under any video and seeing people that are actually aware of the bigger picture because you'll never find this level of nuance online
Eberhand btfo!
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The bottom line is Elon was not the founder
@@spenser6353 for all intents and purposes being a founder doesn't matter if you are going to drive the company into the ground as mentioned by Karen, even if Elon was employee 100, what matters is that he brought it to where it is today as the world's most valuable car company (whether or not you agree with its valuation). There are many other companies we love today where employees who came in much later changed the game for them.
No one will ever erase their names as co-founders of Tesla. They should be proud of their accomplishments.
Yes, without them planting the seed Tesla would not exist.
They are
What the heck, lots of people and a lot of mainstream media calls Elon musk the founder of Tesla.
@@latebluebird There are people that think the planet is flat. Welcome to the internet. Are you new here?
oh they did already xD like who are these people? never heard of them..
So Elon is actually Edison! Not Tesla😂
yeah pretty much
Tesla did not get his proper flowers
Yes
Yep, stealing people's ideas and work!!
hahaha
"Where are the cars" He did a good Schwarzenegger
My thoughts also lol.
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Schwarzenegger (looks at the proto roadster): "I'll be back".
MARTIN EBERHARD IS A TERRIBLE HUMAN TO SOCIALIZE WITH. HE LOVES TO LIE ABOUT ELON!
These guys seem nice and genuine
MARTIN EBERHARD LOVES TO LIE ABOUT ELON! Notice how he interrupts just to sneak one last sentence in saying Elon calls himself a founder. Elon never said that
@@user-ct1lf3hf1v Probably jealous ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
😂😂😂😂
@@user-ct1lf3hf1v Do you keep a diary of everything Elon says? Chances are if they are going on the record saying that, EM probably said it. I am a small shareholder and like Musk. But it doesn’t take a genius to notice he has a huge ego and it looks like that’s what the founders were alluding to. People are easily blinded into absolute infatuation with Musk giving him a beyond reproach god like status without really knowing anything other than a public persona.
executives are usually like that
I’m glad this video wasn’t entirely about Elon Musk 🧠
It was entirely about Eberhard.
A very genuine pair of guys. It is nice to see their friendship stood the most vigorous of tests and survived (to all appearances) unscathed. It is also clear to see the anguish that Mr Eberhard keeps hidden beneath the surface, such that it is hard not to feel a swell of sympathy for him. I tip my hat to their genius.
10:45 in to this video
Wait a second way to second. I thought that the beginning of this video was that elon was not one of the founders.
But 10:45 It says Elon invested 6.5 million, and that's when the business was created 🤕
So you wanna didn't come up with the invention you all did, but y'all didn't start your business without His investment into your company. Meaning that he is one of the founders that started the business.
It is sales to me that you guys are very confused because you'll have an idea without a business, and it wasn't until Elon invested into your company that you created a business.
Which makes him one of the founders 🤯
@@pamelajohnson4011 get a life. and learn about difference between founder , co-founder and investors.
Eberhard is describing his own reality. Tesla is the creation of Elon Musk and J B Straubel.
They idea was too crasy for ordinary investors, so they found a guy who was planning to launch spaceships.
😂😂😂😂
Elon was the original investor. Elon put down $6.5 million of the first $7.5 million used to start Tesla.
Elon is a founder as much as these guys are. Tesla would not have existed without Musk paying to start it.
@@common_c3nts but the idea was still theirs and not his
Here let me fix that for you:
The idea was too crazy for ordinary investors, so they found a guy even crazier...
Lol sounds like the opening of a movie...
@@common_c3nts These 2 invested their own money first when the concept came about, not Elon. Elon invested during the Series A funding.
The irony I see here is that had GM “NOT” discontinued the EV-1 there might never have been a Tesla. GM you saved us all with your idiocy, thank you.
That is absolutely right. Elon has said as much. He only got interested in EV's because GM killed the electric car or so it thought.
Well the EV-1 wasn't really that great of a car as it was to begin with.
Its like how Kodak dismissed Digital Camera and it's business went downhill afterwards. Its like how Nokia dismissed smart phones..
@@chrispek3912 Nokia has the majority of their business in networking so it's not all bad
@@user-gi3ql4pu8t I think most initial prototype starts off disappointingly, limited by the technology of that time, i.e. Samsung's fist few phones, maybe the first few PCs, game consoles, etc.
Kudos to CNBC for a great interview. Inquired in 2009 and got on the 'list' in 2010 and took delivery of Model S in early 2013. I had not heard Marc's name before and could listen to his stories for hours. I like this interview to balance with Elon's comments about the early days and the WKTEC documentary. Thoroughly enjoyed this, thanks to all! Still have my Model S! It has 104,152mi and has seen warranty replacement of battery pack, propulsion motor and a few other items (MCU (-)), but overall would give it a reliability grade of 95% and a uniqueness grade of 100%! Kudos to all!
16:30
Marc: "We didn't have a list"
Martin: "We did, I made one. It was a spreadsheet on my computer"
hilarious :D
I don't know why there are multiple Perry the Platypus toys in the background, but I love it!
Same question
Legit what I came to the comments for. I don’t understand it but I back it %100
Genius background
there's one platypus and one PEEEERRRY the platypus
“He was trying to launch some experiment with missiles from Russia” I like how they just jumped past tht like 😭
Look it up. He was trying to work with Russia in the beginning. Not *that* nuts.
Russia is more invested into space than we are now. We use Russian vessels and launch from russia to get to the ISS
@@spblackey Russia is the leader in missile technology and have just made a breakthrough with their hypersonic missile.
He wanted to use russian rocket engines for space x rockets. But they were too expensive, so he was forced to build his own.
@@mrRunist nice
15:11 Love the Schwarzenegger impersonation..."Where ah the cahs" hahaha 🤣
Congratulations to CNBC for making this report and put into a spotlight these two founders whom had the Vision to save the world and worked very hard to make their innovations and ideas come true. My total admiration for thoses braves and awesome entrepreneurs .
@Spoiled Hu dikkat hai???? Sadly they didn't have the money, Elon did, it's a cold world out there.
They didn't want to put the hard work. That's why Elon had to take over
@@esco466 wow. Tell yourself lies so you can praise your 24/7 tweeting twit Elon daddy Musk. Tell Elon to go tend to his kids if hes not going to work but tweet all day!
@@j4genius961 no they had the money and weren’t willing to lose all of it to grow Tesla.. Elon did
Both of these men were as rich as Elon at the time
10:45 in to this video
Wait a second way to second. I thought that the beginning of this video was that elon was not one of the founders.
But 10:45 It says Elon invested 6.5 million, and that's when the business was created 🤕
So you wanna didn't come up with the invention you all did, but y'all didn't start your business without His investment into your company. Meaning that he is one of the founders that started the business.
It is sales to me that you guys are very confused because you'll have an idea without a business, and it wasn't until Elon invested into your company that you created a business.
Which makes him one of the founders 🤯
Who else noticed perry the platypus?
At least the two in the house
It doesn't have a hat, so it's just a platypus, not Perry :)
My bad, there are 2, one of them is Perry :))
😂😂😂😂😂
Wait I thought those were the actual founders and those two middle age dudes were just the translators
These guy's key to success: Ambush people for a long talk at the table.
MBAs makes a lot of noise
I was fortunate to be a series A investor in Tesla as well as NuvoMedia, their rocket ebook company. These are fantastic engineers and great guys and deserve a lot more credit for Tesla than they normally get. Everything they say in this interview is true. Nice that they can set the record straight.
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I wish I had invested back then I followed this company since inception but I was young dumb and full of…. It never ever sat well with me that Elon took all the credit. He really hasn’t done much other then pump stock take profits and spend everyone else’s money except his own. All while claiming to want to save humanity. Now would I be complaining about my investment not at all. You were smart investing in these two gentlemen you were lucky a grifter like Elon pumped it like a inflatable woman 🍺
@@slackbomb Without proper leadership Tesla would not be a multi billion dollar company. These gentleman left their leadership roles in 2007. So from 2007-2022 the company miraculously became the largest EV company in the world. This notion that he sat around and did nothing is absolutely stupid. A grifter does not lead several companies into multi million/billion dollar valuations with Tweets.
@@slackbomb And who's money is he spending, and on what? Sounds like your projecting your own flaws onto another person.
Imagine founding Tesla, someone else takes the credit and you're like "whatever". Imagine that.
Founding members vs the people that actually make it work. The roadster was a disaster
There literally on the news I feel like they care.
With out Elon, Tesla would have most likely failed. Elon has a right to take credit. Tesla is going in his vision and will continue so. These guys had the right idea but did not have the ambition and know how to get Tesla to where it needs to go. Elon was the only guy who could have done it. I could see the pain in the founders eyes. But they too know Elon and Tesla were meant for each other.
Nobody took any credit. Elon made Tesla work. That's a fact.
@@theholt2ic219 That’s not true. That’s all speculation. There are plenty of people who are not Elon who created successful companies….. who knows where these two men could’ve taken it….
Martin cannot let Marc talk
I think they're a couple
I just want to know what perry platypus knows
its Perry THE platypus
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Guy on the left says "I" a lot, while guy on the right says "we" a lot. Not sure what this means, but it is an interesting observation
Didn’t dude say he was divorced? Probably used to being by himself. Guy on right probably has a wife and 3 kids and a mistress that’s a another man.
I have noticed that too. Did seem like he was personally very proud of his past and achievements, while the guy on the right more emphasized achieving results as a group. Maybe the guys on the left is a little egocentric, but nevertheless, both seem to be geniuses :)
It's important to know the history: Musk wasn't the founder of Tesla, and Eberhard and Tarpenning didn't create the first viable electric car - General Motors did - recalled them, crushed them and walked away.... so these guys and Musk not only get points for being smart, they also get points for not being stupid.
Calling the EV1 viable is a stretch. Two seater with 100 mile range is not that viable. But, the bones of it eventually became the Tesla Roadster.
The electric car was was build long ago, well before general motors. But no one wanted it way, way back then. People think a electric car is new. What a joke.. Most people still do not one even now...
Ray Kroc literally stole McDonalds from the McDonalds brothers and screwed them big time.
@@deezeed2817 The founders of McDonald's were screwing Ray's vision of the company, he had no choice but play dirty. If it wasn't for Ray, you wouldn't even know what McDonald's was in the first place.
Jay Leno's Baker Electric Car ruclips.net/video/OhnjMdzGusc/видео.html
The book written by Ashlee Vance details this quite well. In fact, it clearly states that was given a founder-like status, not that he was a founder.
Love that book. Great intro to Elon.
Elon never once claimed he was a founder of Tesla. That title was given to him by the media and anyone who thinks they know the story. In this video, the interviewer did not clarify that possibly due to ignorance or just mindlessly reading from script.
@@FlipBoxStudio because cnbc is short tesla
www.cnet.com/news/tesla-motors-founders-now-there-are-five/ ,
Good point Gus!
my take away from this;
"Elon's eloness has increased over the years"
22:35
The expression on the face of Marc is priceless immediately after that question. 😂😂😂😂
It sounds almost cursing to me without using the actual words.
@@RobertJackson-sl1mk you're right. I should have taken away their fashion sense from this instead.
Elonass hass inreassed
Take away is Elon is greatest conman of our times
This is one of the best CNBC videos I have ever seen.
What an amazing couple of guys! Tesla would've done even better if they had stayed on. Martin reminds me of Apple's Steve Wozniak, the tech genius that made stuff happen. They both got booted out of their respective companies but Martin took better care of himself. Thanks for this insight CNBC.
It's funny how Mars connected them.
It's a post-facto manufactured connection.
In October 2003, Harold Rosen, the brother of Ben Rosen (chairman of Compaq, who bought my first company), invited me to lunch with himself and JB Straubel. They told me about a company called AC Propulsion that had developed an all electric sports car called the Tzero with a range of 300 miles, a 0 to 60 mph time of under 4 seconds and a lithium ion battery pack with seven thousand cells (email A below).
A few months later, I met with Tom Gage, president of AC Propulsion, who gave me a test drive in the Tzero, which confirmed their claims. Over the course of several months, I tried repeatedly to convince AC Propulsion to commercialize the Tzero, but they were not interested. When I said I was moving forward with creating an electric car company anyway, Tom Gage offered to introduce me to one of two groups that were interested in commercializing the Tzero concept (email B below). The first one they introduced me to was Martin Eberhard and Ian Wright.
- Elon Musk ( who even published the emails regarding this )
It’s probably a mix of both stories.
These guys are so chilled and respectful.
@David v strange
These guys sound much more like "the real deal" engineers than Musk ever has. They just were ruthless enough to make it a success.
ruclips.net/video/AeeeEDSekG8/видео.html
Martin Eberhard nearly destroyed the company, do you think he was kicked out by the board for no reason?
Musk really did them dirty
dang, recorded in oct 2019, i hope they kept their shares xD
And I hope you sold yours around typing this
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When people with a real passion get together magic can happen
I love your reports but this was by far my favorite. Great video!
What a gem of a video to stumble on! Thank you.
22:36 Q'n 22:40 Tarpening reaction is priceless
Thank God they are still shareholders. It would've felt really bad if they weren't anymore.
Like the founders of mc Donald’s :/
@@randomhuman3862 The McDs founders were well before McDs went public. Not much connection at all except for the name. Founders of tech companies or inventors OTOH actually put a lot of work behind their work and deserve more reward.
@@realtalk6195 you sound incredibly stupid. Lot of overconfidence these days with people throwing in their 2¢
True man,looking at how bid Tesla is today
i swear
it's crazy how this version of the story differs from the one told by Elon
The guy's a narcissist and buys his own hype.
@@MilkyWhite1There was a recent tell-all by Elon in a multi-hour interview where he outlines in explicit detail how things went down. Martin Eberhard in particular is quite the liar. ruclips.net/video/AeeeEDSekG8/видео.html
Musk is a pathological liar
@@KateeAngel Martin was fired and given a hefty sum of money, he went on to create another car company which failed, and when he was removed from Tesla, nobody left with him. If he was so awesome, why could he not hack it and why did nobody follow? Good people leave companies to follow great leadership and yet everyone stayed. The evidence says it all.
its says co founder on tesla website , Musk takes too much credit , he doesnt mention any of these founders
When did he not mention them lol.
Marc is the type of guy that can make any topic worth listening
I first noticed Tesla when I noticed on tech blogs news about the feud between these two person Eberhart and Elon over an Electric car startup company. These guys seem very nice, reminds me of Steve Wozniak. The typical tech startup taken over by a charismatic visionary business man.
Taken over by Narcissistic Psychopath, yes.
They come across as really friendly guys. They remind me of senior engineers I've worked with.
Really fascinating interview. Elon ought to give them way more credit.
@Pauline Weinberger Okay? Does that mean Elon has to sue, slander and push the founders of the company out of the company they founded? And do his very best to be considered the founder of the company, when he’s not?
@Pauline Weinberger Theranos was a success as well. Marketing doesn't justify everything.
@@AquaCoalaNest Theranos had no working products. Elon got lots of well working products.
Falcon 1, 9, heavy, propulsive landing, dragon1 and 2, starlink, roadstar, model s,3,x,y( 3 millions of them ).
@@klo4880 Mark planted the seed, Elon watered it. Elon is what Steve Jobs was to Apple, Tesla *would've* died had Elon not stepped in and became CEO. In my eyes he is a co-founder due to him being at the very beginning, the biggest investor and the one who oversaw and saved the company.
Last time I was this early, Tesla didn't exist
lol
Last time when you were this early you ether a child without such a concept or weren't even born yet 🔥
Very funny
Lol that’s funny because it’s a relatively new company 😅
RUclips was a baby
I would love to see more talks like this! This is history-important history(!), that got swept under the rug so to speak.
This isn't the only electric vehicle start up.......
@@davefx7949 but it is the biggest and the other electric car companies probably wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for them. Tesla made electric cars cool. All the electric car start ups before Tesla went bankrupt.
and they left out the part where Elon got 1st car off the line and Ebhard was suppose to get the next one ...but Elon gave him a wrecked demo and sent Ebhard's car into space ...just ruthless
he prob was not allowed to talk about that ...I'm so glad they are getting their due
Tesla wasn’t a real company until Elon took over. Period. That’s a fact.
Amazing! During this interview I couldn’t help but get the vibe of the older brother who feels a need to keep his crazy little brother in check 😂
More like crazy older brother on the left who’s smarter but not as grounded, and a more “mature” but not as high-performing younger bro on the right! 💀
Does make you wonder doesn't it? Bunch of innovative guys see an opportunity on a small scale and need to jump through a lot of hoops, and take a lot of risks, to make it work. Then some investor or bussiness comes along, buys the idea, and becomes the face of that brand and act as if they created it. Respect needs to be paid where its due.
Seriously, how can you take what's yours already? Tesla wouldn't have existed without Musk's money. It was just a business plan. So what. Truth is, they failed. Not one solid dollar in real revenue came in the door before Musk replaced these guys and took over. See, there's this Silicon Valley culture that says that if you raise venture capital and are featured in TechCrunch, you're successful. You get paid, futz around, maybe sell the intellectual property, then move on. Revenue is true success, not fundraising. Filing the paperwork with your name on it and conducting experiments is different from bringing a compelling product to market and surviving long enough to turn a profit. Musk is the true CEO. Until he took over, Tesla Motors was just an expensive science project.
That's corporate politics. But it kinda doesn't matter, he still has his shares. On one hand, I think he fully deserves credit as the true Founder, but on the other hand, I think from marketing perspective Elon is better to become the face of Tesla. I think it's similar to how Sundar Pichai became the face of Google while Larry Page laughs all the way to the bank.
In Tesla case, I think Elon's genius isn't really needed, as they already have visionary founders from the start, they only needed Elon's money. It's arguable whether Tesla won't be as successful without Elon's leadership, but I don't think that what matters the most. Of course, Elon could've started his own electric car company, but that's reinventing the wheel and doesn't add a new innovation unlike SpaceX.
In the case of SpaceX, it was Elon's vision and execution from the start, so I'll give him full credit for it.
@@clarkvaughan Building prototype cars and manufacturing cars at a large scale are two very different things; one is a design skill and the other is manufacturing process skill. Martin and Marc were the design guys (battery wise) and Lotus build the 'car around it'. Elon on the other hand brings money in. Elon is neither the design nor process guys (that's why he's going through production hell), he also had no experience in automotive industry. What he's really good at is marketing, hyping and generating sales. Somehow along the way, drama ensued and the battery design guys got voted off the island. Regardless of what the reason is, now everyone associates Tesla with Elon, calls him a genius for 'inventing' Tesla and Elon never once corrects them or give credit to Martin and Marc in any public engagements.
Whatever the problem was, there was definitely a better way than going behind Martin's back and influencing the board members to fire him. With the lawsuit settled, we will never know exactly what happen; was it 100% betrayal or a tough decision to save the company or maybe a bit of both. For me, the moment Elon let the world believe he was the engineer who draw the first drawing of Tesla, is the moment I truly dislike him. Now he is not only taking credits from others, but he is fully manipulating the market and profiting from it. As Martin said "His Elon-ness has increased over the years". And his cult-like fanbase only adds fuel to the flame.
There is no such thing as one true genius. Even Tesla was a collaborative effort from hundreds of people. Martin and Marc also only build the battery technology. Other parts of the car (transmission, electronics, software etc.) comes from other engineers with years of experience in their respective field.
@@kennethkho7165 If they had visionary and a good plan, why were Tesla almost bankruptcy? Why did an angel investor like Elon have to put all his money and live at factory? Do you think Peter Thiel could do the same things like Elon did?
For me, those guys did start Tesla company with good idea but their outcome is not at prototype level, just a concept with some testing. It's far far from manufacturing. There is no plan to start manufacturing at all. Elon's money and effort may contribute more than what those guys did for the 1st prototype. That's why he can be a Co-founder in media.
If those guys were excellent and able to make Tesla big, why didn't they start another one or contribute to a Tesla competitor like Lucid Air with old Tesla staffs. I bet they couldn't. In many tech companies, co-founders normally contribute the most effort and innovation which grow company. They are real founders. I don't see those guys did well like that.
2008- the final few hours on the final day of the funding round, and Tesla on the brink of collapse, and Elon tells the shareholders that his gonna raise the required 30 million to save the company, and they asked him how he was gonna do that
He replied " I'm going to put it in myself "
That doesn't make him a hero. Hes just a rich white dude. His contribution of funds is ultimately important and we also should not conflate his money to mean he's more than the financier who gets to be eccentric because he has the money. To be clear I have a disdain for wealthy never had to try white men, and I am a business owner and see many friends who businesses have gotten funded from types like him and they always do tooooo damn much and get in the way but hey they have the money so automatically they are brilliant...conflation lets work on not doing that and making white men be priased off merrit lile they tell everyone else 😑 like they always ready to tell others to work hard and rely on self... but ...
That's the day he became a founder. The rebirth Tesla 2.0
@b real Fake news. The money that saved Tesla along with Elon's was a investment from Daimler. The DOE loan was much later during the making of the Model S and was returned early within a year or so when they went public.
@@Beyondarmonia people love spreading false news about people they dislike, The media bias technique.
@@LafemmebearMusic Being white has nothing to do with it.
I’d say their stock ownership in Tesla is doing quite well!!
This was filmed in 2019, so we don’t know if they held their shares all the time since or not. If I were them I’d have sold some of my shares, if not all my shares, by now. At some point you’ve got to start locking in your profits, so that they’re not all just on paper.
Great short doc!!! These guys are the typical quirky geniuses!!! They are awesome!!! Glad they are still shareholders!!! They deserve it!!!!
I would love to watch more of these guys talks , explanations, if they were professors I would never miss a class lol
Well he wasn’t a founder.. but there is no denying that Tesla would not have been where it is today if not for Musk..!
strange how tesla dot com says Musk is a co founder
True 💚
@@YoureWokeYoureBroke not really strange because originally he isn't the founder but I personally believe they made him co-founder. we dont know what was the agreement when they went to look for Elon to join them.they wanted Elon,Elon was busy doing Rockets.they wanted Elon to join them because they new without a guy like Elon they was little chances to make it.who knows if they agreed to make him a co-founder?if he isn't the co-founder why does wiki makes him the co-founder?Elon never said he is the founder so this title is absurd...
He just want's fame
@@sathyapranesh788 are you serious
That Schwarzenegger impression was funny 🤣🤣🤣
Excellent interview, great guys, and very useful information, a-la-Harvard text book video on entrepreneurship! Thanks for sharing it!
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It's so charming how they finish each others sentences. :-D
I think they're a couple
you think it is charming, i think one is talking over the other. but anyway.
@@dbcoco exactly. the one on the left barely lets the guy on the right finish his sentences.
That’s me after having too much caffeine on the left LOL
@@dbcoco Someone commented how he might have ADHD. Which wouldn't surprise me to be honest.
Elon might not have founded the company, be he has certainly founded Tesla's success.
What does that even mean? Lol
Sava ? He made Tesla what it is today lol
Without Elon it doesn’t matter who the founder of Tesla is cause it wouldn’t have succeeded
@@mrrexster829 you do realize other ppl work at tesla besides elon right? what specific decisions did elon personally make that saved the company?
Sava Nah bro Elon saved it alone
@@sava411 invest millions of his own money to save tesla from dying?
V. Interesting.. I remember a lot of the early Lotus involvement and photos of the first incarnations of the car, although it must still wrangle that you are to Tesla, what Pete Best is to the Beatles? I'm glad this now out there and you get some recognition to us laymen out there.
They literally founded Tesla, came up with the idea of how it would go to mass market, which turned out to be right, they made a bunch of technological innovations that are still used by EVs including Tesla's today, and they're major shareholders in Tesla, and you think they're upset about their involvement with Tesla?
@@ReddoFreddo Both major Tesla shareholders.... not what I read Fred!
@@ReddoFreddo I believe the original poster is referring to Lotus. Without them there would have been no car and no suppliers. It would be interesting if Tesla bought Lotus some day and kept the brand alive
I dont know much about business but listening to the interview, I'm pretty sure Americans know how to leverage between coorperation, teamwork, hardwork, in building a vision which normally comes up from a man hobby or interest. I'm glad and grateful for watching this interview and hopefully try to implement some of the key occurrence that paved an idea to be working and eventually succeed. It is all about individual self drive...
great point
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." Elon Musk
Great sales pitch
"May the odds be ever in your favor." - Katniss Everdeen
Bro I'm like fukin yoked
2019 Interview? and u releasing just now? wow
2 years is very reasonable. I dont know what you mean. Especially considering they draw each frame by hand and mail them by ups
@@randominternetguy3537 they must lmfaoooo
Did they air this on TV back then, because then it would be different. Or is this the world premiere right now?
Maybe there was a gag order, or someone feared that they had said more than they should have.
It's a re-upload
I really felt emotional after reading that newspaper clip , about how they ousted him from teslaaa🥺
So these guys are the Steve Wozniak of the EV world
" I'm not sure why he has to say he's a founder, but he did makes us billions of dollars so whatever. "
I'm not sure I've heard Elon claim he was. I've heard him say he wasn't a founder on RUclips before, but I haven't found where he claimed otherwise.
If not for Elon Musk this video would be about how they went broke
@@Karl-Benny They'd be fine. They were rich before and would've been rich after.
@@mediocrejokre He sued to make sure the title applied to him.
@@spblackey He sued because he was butthurt for being turfed out. If he had principles, there would be no non-disclosure agreement in place, as he would have refused to sign one for cash.
The word "Autonomy" is not mentioned in this video. Am I correct?
No, because it was invented single handedly by Elon blinking his brain and thereby giving birth to autonomy and within seconds it spreads to all the cars in Telsa warehouse and they started driving themselves without testing or months of approvals by Tesla engineers, state, local and feds.
Amazing interview with the founders of Tesla Motors!
Its insane how much they compliment each other.
He has Agent: Perry The Platipus dolls all over his house.
I wish the cars they currently own and drive were addressed. Their answers towards "are you still rooting for tesla" were rather diplomatic. :)
Can someone give me a spot where Marc (right guy) spoke more than one minute without being interrupted? 😅
Amazing interview!
Wow, epic interview. I remember all this now back in the day forgot how much time has passed in this evolution.
Within a minute of those two talking you could see why they would be such a great team. I could listen to those two tell stories for much longer. Excellent video!
Exactly the contrary for me. I cant listen ans they look so fake.
@@zerma6 feels like this is an other McDonald’s founders situation where the founders didn’t take risk and ray croc did
@@starrlord_2319 No, it's just business folks ate them alive
I'm not aware Elom Musk says hes the founder, he did however save the company from bankruptcy and made these men very rich
I had the feeling that they are very appreciative of Musk.
It says founder on the tesla website
And the funny thing is Tesla LOOSES money on every car they make. Not sell just make.
@@superterrific321 And google says that Elon Musk is co-founder
Do you want to link me this footage of when he says that he is the founder?
Great vid and very interesting. Wonder how big their holdings are today? Good dynamic between these two, obviously works.
Wasnt there a lawsuit settled where five people including Elon Musk could say that they were co-founders
Yes, you are totally correct. This was settled in a lawsuit where E and T accepted that there were 5 official founders.
Fact of the matter is Elon was acting like he started and also build Tesla from scratch and I dislike people who are like that, show respect to the actual founders who came up with the idea and ran risky tests... Elon was a crucial member ofc but acting like you were the only person to develop this company and technology is disgusting
@@armanithompson1029 No. One interview that I watched E Musk said " he did not name the company Tesla" The name of the company was already Tesla and he just kept it. This guy was saying He wanted an electric sports car for himself. Elan Musk wants a fully automatic self driving car with all the technology and also linked to all the other companies he was planing on building (solar eneryg, battery, so on so forth. Obiously, they put some time and effort trying to figure out a way to build a sport electrci car, but Elan Musk wants everybody to drive an electrci car not small group of people. The vision is completely different.
@@niveax6112 ....He literally mentioned the climate Crisis and oil fueled wars as reasons he wanted to make electric cars those are big problems = and need big solutions. wide adaption is a necessity to even think about beginning to affect those problems. so I would disagree that he only wanted a small group of people to drive his cars.... That doesn’t make sense does it? I think he mentioned his own desire to drive an electric car to demonstrate his ethics on the issue.
The amount of I used by the guy on the left shows why it turned out that way.
There’s no I in Elon
@@SurvivingAnotherDay or tesla
@@SurvivingAnotherDay but there's a E and L in TESLA.
Yeah he sounds like a weasel.
no wonder why he was voted out
already been a huge tesla fanboy - this video made me like tesla even more.
AWW THE AGENT P PLUSH IN THE BACKGROUNDDD
2019? its 2021 how many other interviews cnbc have in there archive
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Anyone know the 1st Magazine to Cover Tesla was???
I can't help but be distracted by Perry the platypus in the background.
Martin needs to let Marc talk... I'd veto him out just so other people can talk too!
Martin is overbearing, rude and can’t stand when he’s not running his mouth
that's actually how a lot of highly intelligent people are
Marc is intelligent and you don’t see him interrupting Martin.
I can see why he got fired from Tesla
Been a long time since I watched a lengthy video straight through without skipping. Very interesting
Does anyone know what Magazine Tesla was 1st Covered in???
Thanks to these guys for making and starting EV cars
Thanks for Elon for spreading EV market
great interview. Thank you.
this was wholesome nice work cnbc
I feel like the way Elon musk talks is literally a cross of both of these guys 😂
Seems like Elon did to the bearded guy at Tesla what Peter Thiel did to Elon at eBay.
Totally awesome insight
The irony that they said "were number 15 and 16 of the Mars society, were founding members," but Elon isn't a founding member of Tesla 🙄
Good point
These gentlemen got played & you can tell by the amount of shade 😂. I love it
they still have shares in Telsa so I think they gonna be just fine
@@savvyfinance2072 Have you been hacked?
@@niuean3000 norhing compared to being the CEO and richest man in the world. Seeing your brainchild in the hands of another dude. General publicly having no idea you have anything to do with the company.
@@handenbramilton no they're just scammers
@@ishish8816 Tesla would have gone bankrupt without Elon....and Obama.
These guys 'Founded' a company on paper. Elon 'founded' a company that actually built electric cars.
saying Elon founded Tesla is like saying Mike Markkula founded Apple.
Have you ever heard of Mike Markkula?
@@stanleytweedle467 he is a cofounder. A company can be founded by more than two people.
@@Stone815
Elon is only a cofounder because of a lawsuit settlement between Eberhard and Tesla(officially there are 5 cofounders). Elon made his investment a year after the company was founded, becoming majority shareholder.
Similarly, Markkula made his investment to Apple a year after it was founded. No lawsuit settlement, no cofounder title.
To spell it out, my issue with the original comment is the assumption that Elon's contribution to Tesla was equivalent to that of Steve Jobs to Apple, when in fact it was more like Markkula.
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@@stanleytweedle467 when Elon joined they had no employees no product. Even the name Tesla couldn't be registered because the name belonged to someone else. Elon helped them aquire the name.
There's a reason why the lawsuit went through. There's enough compelling evidence that Tesla was merely a thought on paper when Elon joined.
@@Stone815
I consider those things very banal. Many startups are just ideas on paper until their first investor(Apple, Google, RUclips, etc).
Any monkey with money can buy the rights to a name. Musk told that story to make his early contribution seem greater than they are.
Lawsuit was settled out of court 1. because the judge denied Tesla's request to dismiss Eberhard's case, and 2. because it's cheaper just to pay Eberhard. No judgment, no mentioning of evidence.
I think Tesla is no Tesla without Musk, but majority of Musk's contribution to Tesla was after he became CEO and actually ran it.
Founder or not, you have to admit that Musk is a savvy businessman and strategist, and it's in his business interest to exaggerate his involvement in the origin of Tesla and to establish his self-made myth.
I think he's very much like Trump in those regard.
Interesting to see such visionaries and the growth story!