Q&A at the Tesla Motors Club in Monterey

4 responses to “Q&A at the Tesla Motors Club in Monterey”

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   jurvetson

   Jul 20, 2014 at 5:04 am

   A random online ad targeting firm cohort analysis guided me to the obvious; this audience has a 42x higher interest than the general public in SpaceX (aka the Elon Musk transitive property): Bulletproof Tesla mod, with SolarCity, 3 electric race bikes and an electric boat in the backgroundAnd what’s left of the largest known Martian rock on EarthWe went out to look at $1M of meteorites in the Tesla trunk of an attendee from Arizona.

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   jurvetson

   Jul 21, 2014 at 4:40 pm

   Not there, but there were a sea of Teslies! It’s a fan/customer club, so it’s all about the existing products and after-market enhancements. Meanwhile, the Merc just did a writeup on the event, and seemed to like my Castrol comments… =)

   “MONTEREY — The co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a Menlo Park venture capital firm, paced excitedly and spoke at breakneck speed about the future of electric vehicles, as if bragging about a child who made the honor roll.

   Some day — he couldn’t yet predict when — everything on the road will be powered by electricity, said Steve Jurvetson, whose professional associations include SpaceX, Synthetic Genomics and Tesla Motors.

   “In 2010, I was speaking to a room full of executives from Castrol, a $10 billion-a-year company. All they do is make products that work in internal combustion engines — that’s 100 percent of their business,” Jurvetson recounted Saturday at TMC Connect, Tesla Motor Club’s summer symposium at the Monterey Hyatt Regency Hotel. “What I told them that day is that they’re essentially working for a buggy whip company. I told them I feel like I have a sixth sense: I see dead people.”

   Jurvetson said he felt like his warning mostly fell on deaf ears that day, particularly since Castrol was making more money at the time than at any moment in its history — in large part because of a booming demand for gas-powered vehicles in China.”

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   Chucil

   Jul 23, 2014 at 3:32 am

   We would like to ask Rodin to 3D print his thinker in this visionary posture.

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   angry shock

   Aug 3, 2014 at 4:24 am

   Excellent shot. Congrats to the photographer.

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