How bad has it really been for Elon Musk this last month? The worst weeks ever?
Let me remind people about his infamous previous "worst few weeks". Christmas 8 or so years back (2008?) when Tesla nearly folded (it had to convince investors for more funding and Elon had put in his last bit of personal savings) - and 3 SpaceX rockets had exploded, and the US was in recession, and he had gone through a divorce with his 1st wife - and in his own words "was that close to a mental breakdown"
But in the recent press conference for v8. This was said:
Michael Ballaban – Jalopnik
Hey Elon, thanks for taking this question. Yesterday you tweeted that it had been an unusually difficult couple of weeks. Was that just a reference to the SpaceX launch pad fire or was there something else going on?
Elon Musk – Tesla CEO
It’s just been a lot. We are still getting a lot of flak for the whole SolarCity thing which I think is unreasonable and you know, there’s a lot effort on the Autopilot, on the Model 3 development and getting the factory for the Model 3, and then the rocket exploding… [pause] … the worst few weeks ever really.
Transcript here.
Transcript: Elon Musk’s press conference about Tesla Autopilot under v8.0 update [Part 6]
Let me remind people about his infamous previous "worst few weeks". Christmas 8 or so years back (2008?) when Tesla nearly folded (it had to convince investors for more funding and Elon had put in his last bit of personal savings) - and 3 SpaceX rockets had exploded, and the US was in recession, and he had gone through a divorce with his 1st wife - and in his own words "was that close to a mental breakdown"
But in the recent press conference for v8. This was said:
Michael Ballaban – Jalopnik
Hey Elon, thanks for taking this question. Yesterday you tweeted that it had been an unusually difficult couple of weeks. Was that just a reference to the SpaceX launch pad fire or was there something else going on?
Elon Musk – Tesla CEO
It’s just been a lot. We are still getting a lot of flak for the whole SolarCity thing which I think is unreasonable and you know, there’s a lot effort on the Autopilot, on the Model 3 development and getting the factory for the Model 3, and then the rocket exploding… [pause] … the worst few weeks ever really.
Transcript here.
Transcript: Elon Musk’s press conference about Tesla Autopilot under v8.0 update [Part 6]
It's his usual go to for "that was the worst time".
