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🗓️ 12 March 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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➤ Former Tesla board member Steve Westly joins Rob Maurer to discuss Elon Musk, Tesla, disruption, energy, venture capital, and more
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:45 Westly Group focus
2:50 Disruption of conservative industries
4:44 Finding Tesla
8:44 Becoming a board member
10:44 Tesla’s early / present-day ambition
14:28 Current EV landscape
17:37 Tesla’s growth
20:53 Volkswagen & China
24:08 Ford’s EV Split
28:07 Impacts of autonomy
29:23 Luminar
32:32 Tesla Energy & Solar
36:16 Regulatory policies & California migration
40:00 Early stage interests
44:07 Rob’s promise
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Executive producer Jeremy Cooke
Executive producer Troy Cherasaro
Executive producer Andre/Maria Kent
Executive producer Jessie Chimni
Executive producer Michael Pastrone
Executive producer Richard Del Maestro
Executive producer John Beans
Music by Evan Schaeffer
Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, we're out of malware here and today we have the good fortune to be joined |
0:10.4 | by Steve Wesley. |
0:11.4 | He's the managing partner and founder of the West the group as well as being a former |
0:15.1 | board member of Tesla. |
0:16.6 | So I wanted to spend some time today chatting about that experience as well as some of |
0:21.0 | the stuff you guys are looking at with your fond and things like that. |
0:23.8 | Steve, thanks for joining us. |
0:24.8 | Really appreciate you taking the time. |
0:26.7 | You bet glad to be here. |
0:28.5 | Absolutely. |
0:29.7 | So let's start with the fund a little bit just to give people some background on kind |
0:32.7 | of what you are doing, what you've been doing. |
0:35.3 | As I said, former Tesla board member, but in 2007, I think you guys started the Wesley |
0:38.8 | group, $700 million assets under management right now. |
0:42.2 | I know you just raised your fourth funds a couple months back, $300 million fund. |
0:47.0 | So you want to just tell us a little bit about what you guys focus on from an investing |
0:51.0 | perspective? |
0:52.0 | Absolutely. |
0:54.0 | So we're one of the earliest folks investing in clean tech. |
0:58.2 | As you may know, clean tech 1.0 did go that well for everybody. |
1:02.4 | We were one of the few that did did well and that was partially based on being one of |
1:06.2 | the earliest investors in Tesla where I served on the board and shared the audit committee |
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