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From: Elon Musk

To: Everybody

Subject: Some concerning news

June 17, 2018

11:57 p.m.

I was dismayed to learn this weekend about a Tesla employee who had conducted quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations. This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties.

The full extent of his actions are not yet clear, but what he has admitted to so far is pretty bad. His stated motivation is that he wanted a promotion that he did not receive. In light of these actions, not promoting him was definitely the right move.

However, there may be considerably more to this situation than meets the eye, so the investigation will continue in depth this week. We need to figure out if he was acting alone or with others at Tesla and if he was working with any outside organizations.

As you know, there are a long list of organizations that want Tesla to die. These include Wall Street short-sellers, who have already lost billions of dollars and stand to lose a lot more. Then there are the oil & gas companies, the wealthiest industry in the world — they don't love the idea of Tesla advancing the progress of solar power & electric cars. Don't want to blow your mind, but rumor has it that those companies are sometimes not super nice. Then there are the multitude of big gas/diesel car company competitors. If they're willing to cheat so much about emissions, maybe they're willing to cheat in other ways?

Most of the time, when there is theft of goods, leaking of confidential information, dereliction of duty or outright sabotage, the reason really is something simple like wanting to get back at someone within the company or at the company as a whole. Occasionally, it is much more serious.

Please be extremely vigilant, particularly over the next few weeks as we ramp up the production rate to 5k/week. This is when outside forces have the strongest motivation to stop us.

If you know of, see or suspect anything suspicious, please send a note to [email address removed for privacy] with as much info as possible. This can be done in your name, which will be kept confidential, or completely anonymously.

Looking forward to having a great week with you as we charge up the super exciting ramp to 5000 Model 3 cars per week!

Will follow this up with emails every few days describing the progress and challenges of the Model 3 ramp.

Thanks for working so hard to make Tesla successful,

Elon
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:lol::lol:
 

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I think he's done wonders for industry so I mean this in the nicest way, but he's losing his mind. He's getting consumed by his own hype.
 

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Man of Leisure said:

:lol::lol:
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11101 said:
I think he's done wonders for industry so I mean this in the nicest way, but he's losing his mind. He's getting consumed by his own hype.
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I know he can sound like a nutter sometimes but this letter is actually fairly reasonable despite its paranoid tone. Industrial espionage is a real thing and some companies have committed all sorts of crimes to protect their money.

Just one public example: look at the true story of The Insider movie and the lengths to which tobacco companies suppressed medical evidence to protect their profits.

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1996/05/wigand199605
 
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Don't see why that email is so bad.

Saying that,

11101 said:
I think he's done wonders for industry so I mean this in the nicest way, but he's losing his mind. He's getting consumed by his own hype.
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Yep, some of his latest tweets have been quite a bit ridiculous.
 

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oneniltothearsenal said:
I know he can sound like a nutter sometimes but this letter is actually fairly reasonable despite its paranoid tone. Industrial espionage is a real thing and some companies have committed all sorts of crimes to protect their money.
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I found this line especially funny:
In light of these actions, not promoting him was definitely the right move.
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I think in Vedic Philosophy it says the same. Nothing new here.
 

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This story ends with his cult followers blaming the haters in the media and elsewhere for whatever Musk eventually does that he can't recover his image from.
 

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I’ll have nothing but kind words for him if he actually follows through with this
 

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MadMike said:
He’s a Twitter attention whore, but aside from that why do you think he’s a pos?
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He claims to care about climate change and is funding the political party that is the biggest obstacle in the world to any hope of serious action on carbon emissions.
 

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He claims to care about climate change and is funding the political party that is the biggest obstacle in the world to any hope of serious action on carbon emissions.
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But he donates to both parties? Standard practice by businessmen to try and build ties and connections with politicians so they can shape policy. Not sure how that makes him duplicitous in any way. You need to have the ear of the politicians to push your agenda and you need to pay for that.
 

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MadMike said:
But he donates to both parties? Standard practice by businessmen to try and build ties and connections with politicians so they can shape policy. Not sure how that makes him duplicitous in any way. You need to have the ear of the politicians to push your agenda and you need to pay for that.
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Yeah, like we said, he's a piece of shit.
 

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Remember when the op said he agrees with everyone else that he's the smartest man on the planet?

Good times.
 
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