Taking delivery of the first Model S

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    With co-founder J.B. Straubel, who gave me the keys and let me drive out of the Tesla HQ.

    Here is the video... and it was such an incredible experience, driving out through the proud employee ranks, all shooting photos and cheering…

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    1. .McCarthy 12 months ago | reply

      I prefer to think of him as the Dos Equis man, the most interesting man on Flickr.

    2. jurvetson 12 months ago | reply

      blush. I think Elon is clearly the XX man. He went to great pains to secure www.X.com for his banking startup that combined with Confinity to become PayPal... and a second X showed up in SpaceX...

      Thanks y'all.... but MadMen's Pete is such a skeezball... =)

      P.S. My little video rolled into the NBC coverage from the 6pm news last night.

      Screen Shot 2012-06-08 at 12.35.18 PM

    3. solerena 12 months ago | reply

      Great, in this context XX V stands for victory in the quest-love for the unknown and impossible ....XXXXX projected to infinity!

    4. jurvetson 2 months ago | reply

      ...and fast forward to today... an amazing review in Road & Track

      "The Model S isn't just the most important car of the year. It's the most important car America has made in an entire lifetime."

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