Musk to Sutskever: 'No problem. Will call today.'

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: November 19, 2015 (Sent 9:14 (PM), about half an hour after Sutskever's 8:41 PM message; exhibit header dated Nov. 19, 2015)
To:: Ilya Sutskever

Partial text. Only these passages were published; [...] marks a gap.

No problem. Will call today.

About this email

Musk agrees to call Sutskever, who was deciding between the new lab and a Google counteroffer.

Notes

As read aloud by counsel at Sutskever's deposition (deposition Exhibit 3, Bates 2024MUSK-0005305). Likely the complete message, but the document itself was not retrieved.

Where it came from

Court record; attribution confirmed.

Musk v. Altman (N.D. Cal., No. 4:24-cv-04722-YGR), Dkt. 391-46 (Ilya Sutskever deposition, Oct. 1, 2025; emails read into the record)

OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: recruiting, ilya-sutskever, google, musk-v-openai

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