Elon Musk | Interview Part 1 - Early Days of Tesla

This is the first segment of a three-part series in which our club President John, Club Vice President Kelvin Gee, Tesla Owners Club My Tesla Adventure President Eli Burton, and Ryan Levenson from The Kilowatts got to sit down with Elon Musk at Gigafactory Texas. In part 1, we primarily discuss the early days of Tesla and in parts 2 and 3, we get to learn a little more about Elon himself.

 

0:00 - Understanding Supply Chain

1:54 - Introduction

2:21 - Why Electric Vehicles

9:09 - Studying Energy Storage at Stanford

15:05 - Who Founded Tesla

34:10 - Founding Zip2

38:24 - Tesla Founder Departures

49:52 - Roadster Engineering

1:01:03 - Funding Tesla