Disputed: alleged Musk email to employee who missed event for child's birth

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: 2015 (send date unknown; 2015 is the year the book quoting it was published)
To:: Unnamed Tesla employee

Excerpt. Only this much of the email has been made public.

That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where your priorities are. We're changing the world and changing history, and you either commit or you don't.

About this email

Ashlee Vance's 2015 biography quotes an anonymous Tesla employee's recollection of an email from Musk rebuking him for missing a company event to attend his child's birth. Musk publicly denied ever writing or saying it.

Notes

AUTHENTICITY DISPUTED. The wording is an anonymous employee's recollection as printed in Vance's book and first reported by the Washington Post; no copy of the email has been published. Musk's denial on Twitter (May 2015): "I have never written or said this. It is total BS & hurtful to claim that I told a guy to miss his child's birth just to attend a company meeting." Tesla-related, so it may overlap with the Tesla slice.

Where it came from

Book/biography; attribution single-source.

Tesla, executive & internal. Tags: ashlee-vance, biography, work-ethic, disputed

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