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Brilliant Ideas, Not Pivots:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j...

This is great. We also need companies and founders with great visions that ultimately don’t have to pivot. And I’m sure there are many of them.

By the way, is there any source for that blog post that proves its existence and form back to 2006? The Wayback Machine only has it until 2016, but perhaps the URL changed.

It does trace back to 2006, although the "Elon Musk, Co-Founder & CEO of Tesla Motors" byline is misleading. The original publication has him as Chairman of the Board. It gives his year appropriate job description in the intro paragraph so I'll let the blog engine's retroactive job title change slide.

http://web.archive.org/web/20061114160549/http://www.teslamo...

(Their website used to be at teslamotors.com)

Thanks a lot for tracking that down! I would also say the change of some metadata in a non-static page is fine.

But will there be a future pivot? "Tesla pivoted from the original idea of selling cars to robo-taxis in 20xx."

Master Plan, Part Deux: https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux

I would say robotaxi is an extension of the business not a pivot. the plan described in the blog is pretty much achieved, isn't it?

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