Cenk Uygur
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When Elon Musk Takes Away Your Tesla
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February 4, 2016
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Feb 4, 20165:14Now PlayingA blogger wrote an unfriendly open letter to Elon Musk, and Musk was not pleased. As a consequence Elon has cancelled the man’s Tesla order. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“Unimaginable wealth has brought Elon Musk a lot of benefits, from being able to build a private spaceflight company to planning a magnet-powered vacuum tube supersonic transport system between LA and San Francisco – and be taken seriously. But perhaps the best perk of being Elon Musk is the ability to be unbelievably petty.
The Californian venture capitalist Stewart Alsop learned that to his cost, he says, after he wrote an open letter to Musk about the badly run launch event for the Tesla Motors Model X (the newest car from Musk’s electric vehicle startup).
Headlined “Dear @ElonMusk: you should be ashamed of yourself”, the letter listed Alsop’s issues with the event: it started late, it focused too much on safety, and it was so packed that even people like Alsop, who had placed a $5,000 deposit on the car (which was originally supposed to ship in 2013, but had only delivered 208 cars by the end of 2015), didn’t get the chance to test drive it.”
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