@entrepreneursanctuary: This footage is from 2008. Tesla was almost dead. 🚗 Elon Musk walks through a yard full of rejected Tesla Roadsters — cars pulled off the line for quality problems — and says exactly what he's thinking: "Holy mackerel. Jesus. I'm looking like we're going to be able to deliver 4 cars to the sales team. This is frightening." Then he lays out the stakes: 💰 "If Roadster can't sustain the company by March, then that's it. We need to get the company to cash flow positive in 6 to 9 months. Or we're screwed." This is from Revenge of the Electric Car — a 2011 documentary filmed from 2007 to 2010 with unprecedented access to Tesla. 🎬 This was 2008. The global financial crisis. SpaceX had just had three consecutive rocket failures. Musk had separated from his first wife. And Tesla was hemorrhaging cash with quality issues nobody could fix fast enough. His response to the quality problems: 🔥 "I want names named. If someone's always on the hot seat and is always the root cause for problems, they will not be part of this organization long term." Then — in the middle of all of it — a flash of dark humor: "It's not OK to be unhappy and part of this company. If somebody can't get happy, get divorced." Someone in the room: "Speak from personal experience." 😶 He was going through a divorce. The room knew it. He let it land. This is what the early days actually looked like. 🧠 No guarantee of success. No roadmap. Just a CEO walking through a yard of rejected cars telling his team they had 6 months to fix it or die. Tesla IPO'd in 2010. Became the most valuable automaker in history. Musk's net worth: approximately $300 billion. 💰 It didn't look like that in 2008. 👉 @entrepreneursanctuary #ElonMusk #Tesla #Entrepreneurship #Leadership #Resilience

nono :

What a fantastic turnaround.. Only Elon can pull this off

Eddy Kane :

from nothing in 2008 to the best cars ever made

Aparadoxx ♈️ APA :

But people are mad that his a Billionaire. He worked for it.

Steve1974 :

genius! so calm under pressure

Heyyo :

I wonder how many lives he destroyed to become a trillionaire

Panda  :

Dude straight up saved Tesla and made it the best EV ever . Now it’s over a trillion dollar company. Most inspiring CEO ever

xnjhj :

from nearly negative money to a trillion is insane

Jay Dey :

The guy at the end looked around like “he’s talking about me”😂

Andries Bik :

Ist es der echte Elon Musk?

Leo Villatoro :

I know he felt hat lol

tomrazer :

I admire him no matter what haters say

Remconst :

If I only invested 10k back then😔

Rebar King :

Elon didn’t even 😠 Pissed. That’s amazing

Kent :

This is before he bought the company , now tell me how he was buying someone else success, he transformed this bankrupt ev car company into what it is today

Tyler Mendenhall :

I’m not anti musk but remember the roadster he never built and the mission to mars he cancelled? 😂 We’re going to the moon now and somehow the smartest man in the world can’t go tomorrow even tho we’ve apparently done it 50 years ago.

bichnga :

And people hate on this man and don’t realize he literally came from NOTHING!

J.G./C.G. :

Majority every business has been at verge collapse or bankruptcy but you keep fighting and never give up. 💪

Detroittinter :

Elon is the man 😁👌

Dress with Duke :

THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ENTERPRISE AND A BUSINESS. MOST PEOPLE FALL INTO THE TRAP OF TRYING TO RUN AN ENTERPRISE AS A BUSINESS. THIS IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM. IF YOU LIKE TO HAVE MORE DETAILS LET ME KNOW.

Noah M :

Never thought Tesla would be to the point we would buy 2 of them.

Sam Loya ༼ :

Why was this filmed like reality tv?

Sev7n_7 :

SpaceGo :

elon😏🥰

NicJenT :

yeah, go for it. no matter how hard you encounter still believe yourself you can do it👍

hotniks55 :

What was the name of this documentary. I watched it a long time ago but can’t remember the name of it.