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Re:Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla by mej10 on Thursday May 14, 2015 @05:24PM (#9547674)
How many people owned Teslas before Musk took over?
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Re:Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla by OrwellianChild on Thursday May 14, 2015 @05:28PM (#9547688)
A bit over 400. Of those, 75% of them needed to be recalled due to manufacturing issues. [1][2]

My perception is that Musk brings very capable executive-level management to his projects. Tesla was dying without strong leadership (and had a string of temporary CEOs prior to Musk).

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-recalls-345-roadsters-2...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-1...

EDIT: Fixed citations...

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Re:Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla by mej10 on Thursday May 14, 2015 @05:30PM (#9547694)
Oh, nice! I wonder if that should be added to the wikipedia article?
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Re:Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla by a8da6b0c91d on Thursday May 14, 2015 @07:00PM (#9548065)
Tesla is still on a course to meet with death. They lose a lot of money and there is zero credible plan to arrive at profitability.

I wonder what all the hagiographers will say when Tesla goes belly up in the next recession.

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