The lunch that led to Tesla is a story that Tesla CEO and co-founder Elon Musk and Tesla co-founder JB Straubel shared in their recent interview.
The two (of five) co-founders were interviewed by the Financial Times at their Future of the Car summit this week, and many of us tuned in live to watch it. Although Elon Musk’s comments about Twitter bans were prominently featured in the news yesterday (mixed in with some sensationalism as usual), Elon Musk and JB Straubel gave a phenomenal interview that covered various topics.
Peter Campbell, FT’s global motor industry correspondent, interviewed the two. He led the interview by asking both to share about a lunch that changed the world. This lunch is where Elon Musk and JB Straubel initially came up with a plan that led to Tesla. They have talked about it before, so longtime Tesla followers may already know the story.
Elon Musk explained that he received a call out of the ...
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