Farzad Mesbahi is an Ex-Tesla employee, who worked there for 4 years in different roles. In this video I talk with him about Tesla’s culture and mission, his mistakes, his Tesla investment thesis, and so much more.
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► Farzad being interviewed on @DearSophia42 (thank you Hans for the excellent comments during the livestream!):
► The Innovator’s Dilemma:
► Tesla Anti-Handbook Handbook:
*Continue watching:*
► 100 Baggers: How to turn $1 into $100 (with a single investment):
► The Rise of Tesla: A Deep Dive For Long-Term Investors:
► Interview with Bitcoin Maximalist Fabio Andreatta (trying to poke holes into his thesis):
0:00 Intro
1:29 The Tesla Anti-Handbook Handbook
9:46 Every Tesla employee is incentivized with stock options
10:48 How many strikes until you get fired?
14:07 Farzad’s mistakes
16:46 Tesla’s 24 hour rule to fix mistakes
18:50 Tesla’s employee demographic & work culture
24:33 Mental health & burnout
31:08 Not possible to hide
36:14 Average tenure of Tesla employees & stock options vesting
38:40 Tesla salary & compensation system
45:51 When Tesla almost went bankrupt
48:51 Tesla internal dashboards & transparency
50:51 Internal organization & prioritization
54:20 The Tesla improvement flywheel
56:02 Elon Musk responding to employee emails
57:05 Elon Musk’s time management
1:00:08 Meeting culture & all-hands meetings
1:01:25 “Elon gets too much credit”
1:03:15 Elon is a magnet for people who want to make a difference
1:04:18 Longevity of Tesla culture (will Tesla become Apple-like at one point)
1:09:57 Strong leadership
1:11:03 Who could replace Elon as CEO?
1:15:03 Herbert Diess
1:16:35 Innovator’s Dilemma
1:22:34 100 Baggers Book
1:23:07 FSD & Robotaxis: Will we ever see level 5?
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