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Anyone have a guess as to what company this was?
by arcanus 9y ago
Anyone have a guess as to what company this was?
- majestik 9y agoTesla?
- taurath 9y agoClearly.
- user5994461 9y agoAre they public?
- Simon_says 9y agoYes.
- throwaway7645 9y agoThat seems to fit: 1.) move from Palo alto to east bay 2.) manufacturing company with software engineers 3.) lots of people leaving 4.) CEO changing the world. However, I'm sure many companies meet that.
- maxxxxx 9y agoWasn't there the story where Musk scolded someone who took off to be at the birth of his child?
- PeterisP 9y agoThis somehow seems relevant - http://nypost.com/2017/05/21/coachs-viral-response-when-asked-why-star-missed-game-for-kids-birth/ http://nypost.com/2017/05/21/coachs-viral-response-when-aske...
- phonon 9y agohttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/597982078374817794 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/597982078374817794
- conanbatt 9y agoIt really sounds fake. Even if Elon really believed that to be true, it would be very dumb to say it.
- gwern 9y agoBingo. The company was Rocket Science Games. https://web.archive.org/web/20121113115319/https://engineering.stanford.edu/profile/sblank https://web.archive.org/web/20121113115319/https://engineeri... says Blank was involved, and one of Musk's internships was also there according to the Musk bio and a few sites listing his internships (simultaneous with Pinnacle, apparently).
- pinewurst 9y agoThat really makes me feel old - I used to work for another gaming company at that time that was pals with Rocket Science. It was not exactly a model of how to run a business - and where I worked was hardly GE. :) From dubious acorns doth startup management gurus grow.
- huac 9y agoMusk is also notorious for underpaying his engineers.
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- dkhenry 9y agoWhile it may fit most of the criteria, I wouldn't say Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpennin were the visionary founders mentioned and Elon Musk and company tried to bring in adult supervision before Elon sunk enough of his own money into the company to just start running it himself. Most of the narrative doesn't fit as this article presents it ( it might still be tesla, but you can assume the details are pretty one sided )
- drudru11 9y agoThat was my first guess too.
- jtmarmon 9y agoMy guess is square. The CFO went to stanford for an MBA, where the author taught. Neither CFO Tesla has had went to Stanford. Can't find anything about Dorsey working at one of the startups listed on the author's wikipedia page, but he seemed to have been involved with many so it would be unsurprising if it just wasn't listed there.
- Denzel 9y agoMusk worked at Rocket Science Games, a Steve Blank startup, almost two decades ago.
- tdeck 9y agoSquare was never located in Palo Alto (although there is/was a small South Bay office where people could work one day a week) and is not, as far as I know, moving to the East Bay.
- blackguardx 9y agoI worked at Square on the hardware team. Sarah Friar (CFO) and Jack Dorsey (CEO) aren't like that and Square doesn't do any manufacturing. They use contract manufacturers.