XNovember 16, 2022
A Fork in the Road
Twitter staff had until 5pm ET the next day to commit to being extremely hardcore, or take three months of severance.
Source: Donie O'Sullivan on X, Nov 16, 2022 · The Verge
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Famous emails.
14 public emails, each shown as the court scan or contemporaneous screenshot already in the record.
TeslaJune 9, 2020
Tesla Semi: go all out
Staff email calling for volume production of the Tesla Semi, with batteries and powertrains at Giga Nevada.
Source: Leaked Outlook screenshot posted June 9, 2020 · Electrek
TeslaMay 22, 2019
Exciting Goal! 50,000 net new orders
Staff email saying Tesla already had more than 50,000 net new orders that quarter and could beat Q4 2018 deliveries.
TeslaAugust 12, 2018TE 825
Privileged
Elon Musk tells Tesla general counsel Todd Maron he will not take a call from Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), until the public record is corrected, and attaches their text thread.
Source: N.D. Cal. trial exhibit 825, In re Tesla Inc. Securities Litigation
TeslaAugust 11, 2018TE 256
Re: Good to see u yesterday
Elon Musk tells Goldman Sachs bankers he wants a broad group of investors for the take-private deal, because Saudi Arabia would fund the whole deal only with a Gigafactory there.
Source: N.D. Cal. trial exhibit 256, In re Tesla Inc. Securities Litigation
TeslaAugust 7, 2018TE 12
Taking Tesla Private
The staff email Tesla published on its blog the day Elon Musk said he was considering going private at $420 a share.
Source: Tesla blog · TE 12 PDF
TeslaAugust 7, 2018TE 1001
Re: Tesla +$11: “Absolutely”
One-word reply after investor Ron Baron asked to stay in if Tesla went private.
Source: N.D. Cal. trial exhibit 1001, In re Tesla Inc. Securities Litigation
TeslaAugust 7, 2018TE 87
Re: FT article re: Saudi investment in Tesla: “Ok”
One-word reply after Tesla comms flagged a Financial Times story on a Saudi stake.
Source: N.D. Cal. trial exhibit 87, In re Tesla Inc. Securities Litigation
TeslaAugust 2, 2018TE 81
Offer to Take Tesla Private at $420
Board email proposing to take Tesla private at $420 a share, citing short attacks, quarterly pressure, and SpaceX as a private-company comparison.
Source: N.D. Cal. trial exhibit 81, In re Tesla Inc. Securities Litigation
TeslaJune 12, 2018
Reorg Update
Company-wide email announcing that Tesla would let go about 9% of salaried staff. Elon Musk posted the Outlook screenshots on Twitter.
Source: Elon Musk on Twitter, June 12, 2018 · Electrek
OpenAIJanuary 31, 2018Ex. 16
Fwd: Top AI institutions today
Elon Musk writes that OpenAI is on a path of certain failure relative to Google, and that only a major expansion of OpenAI or Tesla AI could change that.
OpenAISeptember 20, 2017Ex. 41
Re: Honest Thoughts
Elon Musk tells OpenAI leadership he will stop funding unless they commit to remaining a nonprofit: “Discussions are over.”
OpenAISeptember 11, 2017DX-0679
Re: proposed cap table
One-line reply to Greg Brockman, Sam Altman, and Ilya Sutskever on a proposed cap table: “Guys, you are pushing too hard here.”
OpenAIDecember 11, 2015Ex. 6
The OpenAI Company
Congratulatory note to the early OpenAI team from erm@spacex.com, stressing recruitment of brilliant people who have not yet finished school.
No emails in that company.
Some well-known emails exist only as published text, including Acronyms Seriously Suck in the Quote Library. Those are not reconstructed here.
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