With Rachel Konrad
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
There are few resumes that can rival this week's podcast guest's!
Having worked for Elon Musk at Tesla (2008 - 2011), Carlos Ghosn at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi (2011-2016), and Pat Brown at Impossible Foods (2016-2021), Rachel Konrad joins Robert for an amazing and insightful conversation which kicks off with how she managed to get Robert an early drive in a Tesla Roadster.
The Production Board:
https://www.tpb.co/staff/rachel-konrad
https://tpb-staging-site.webflow.io/philosophy
https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/rachel-konrad-interview/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged |
| 0:14.8 | show podcast. Just I don't know how I've got it I've got to do some explanation |
| 0:20.1 | for this episode because it is a pretty exceptional a real pleasure so to record |
| 0:27.1 | this was amazing let me just not over blow everything too much I don't want to build |
| 0:31.7 | it up too much but it is incredible this is an amazing episode |
| 0:35.5 | I've managed to capture a chunk of |
| 0:40.9 | of technological |
| 0:42.1 | history that is really important and it's important to understand but I just want to go back to explain to put some of the things in context because my guest this week Rachel Conrad and I have known each other for quite some time, |
| 0:56.0 | you know not well I've met her a few times in various extraordinary roles but she really is an exceptional force of nature. |
| 1:05.5 | This is great fun in this episode. |
| 1:07.7 | So Rachel Conrad was born and raised in Detroit in the United States. |
| 1:12.4 | She worked at a company called Tesla Motors |
| 1:15.3 | from 2008 to 2011. |
| 1:19.4 | Just to explain that at that time, |
| 1:21.8 | Tesla was a very, very small company with a very, very |
| 1:26.6 | small chance of survival. It nearly went under again and again and again it nearly |
| 1:31.8 | failed so many times but that was the the period where they launched the Tesla roadster |
| 1:38.0 | You can see one right up there little model of one |
| 1:41.4 | And where they by the end of the time she was there they had launched |
| 1:45.3 | the Tesla Model S or about to launch it. She then went to a big car show in Paris |
| 1:51.6 | where she met a man called Carlos Gone. |
| 1:54.0 | She explained some of this. |
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