Elon Emails

Musk approves the drafted 'Taking Tesla Private' email

From:
Elon Musk
Date:
August 7, 2018 (Exhibit shows 11:49 AM for 'Great' and a header time of 8/7/2018 7:11:15 PM for 'Will send')
To:
Sarah O'Brien (cc: Todd Maron; Deepak Ahuja; Dave Arnold; Sam Teller)
Subject:
Re: Draft Email 420

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

Great [...] Will send

About this email

Communications chief Sarah O'Brien sends Musk a draft of the employee email explaining the $420 take-private idea; Musk replies 'Great', and after she suggests he send it to employees before it goes on the blog, he answers 'Will send'.

Notes

Two very short Musk replies in one chain, combined here. Successive machine reads of the PDF disagreed on which header carries which reply, so the pairing of 'Great' (reply to the draft) and 'Will send' (final reply) should be checked against the PDF. O'Brien's messages: 'Below is a draft email for your consideration. Immediately after you send something to employees, we'll get it up on the blog.'; 'Apologies Elon, use this version:'; 'Shall we leave you send this to employees first and then we'll post it on the blog as a message from to our employees? To me, that feels like the best approach.'

Where it came from

Court record; attribution confirmed.

Tesla, executive & internal. Tags: take-private, 420, communications, funding-secured