Season 3, Episode 1: Tesla

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Acquired kicks off Season 3 with a gangbuster two-hour extravaganza on America’s most successful automotive startup since The Ford Motor Company: Tesla. We cover everything, from founding to its 2010 IPO to all that’s happened since, including the question on the minds of superhero fans everywhere: who came first, Elon Musk or Tony Stark? (Spoiler: Elon)

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Carve Outs:

Ben: The Dissect podcast
David: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast

Transcript

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0:00.0	Do you know that do you know the code name for the model S?
0:02.0	White Star.
0:04.0	Yeah. Yeah.
0:05.0	Yeah.
0:06.0	Facing how cool you feel doing this and learning the code names of projects and you're like,
0:10.0	ah, that was a code name even though it has no.
0:12.0	It's not secretive, it's not, it's just boring,
0:14.5	but I think it's cool. Welcome to Season 3 episode 1 of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions, and IPOs.
0:33.8	I'm Ben Gilbert.
0:34.7	I'm David Rosenthal.
0:36.0	And we are your hosts.
0:37.6	Today we are covering a company that was not founded by Elon Musk, Tesla.
0:42.2	Debatable.
0:43.0	Depends who you ask.
0:45.0	Tesla is an unbelievably complex and nuanced company to research.
0:51.0	They're without a doubt one of the most innovative companies in the
0:53.7	world right now. They've created the electric vehicle era that we're in. They've
0:57.8	invented the most adored cars on the market through sheer force of will brilliant
1:01.2	design and world-class engineering.
1:03.4	In fact, the most recent US automaker to reach success before Tesla was Ford, and that was 111 years ago.
1:10.2	Tesla is also a solar energy company, semi truck company, autonomous vehicle pioneer.
1:14.0	They're becoming the world's largest lithium ion battery manufacturer.
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