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follow up from call

Elon Musk to Greg Brockman, November 22, 2015

Musk responds to Brockman's draft announcement, proposing a $1 billion funding commitment and a vesting cash bonus in the offer template.

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From
Elon Musk
Sent
Sunday, November 22, 2015 7:48PM
To
Greg Brockman
Cc
Sam Altman
Subject
follow up from call
Blog sounds good, assuming adjustments for neutrality vs being YC-centric. I'd favor positioning the blog to appeal a bit more to the general public -- there is a lot of value to having the public root for us to succeed -- and then having a longer, more detailed and inside-baseball version for recruiting, with a link to it at the end of the general public version. We need to go with a much bigger number than $100M to avoid sounding hopeless relative to what Google or Facebook are spending. I think we should say that we are starting with a $1B funding commitment. This is real. I will cover whatever anyone else doesn't provide. Template seems fine, apart from shifting to a vesting cash bonus as default, which can optionally be turned into YC or potentially SpaceX (need to understand how much this will be) stock.
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The whole thread

  1. Nov 22, 2015 Greg Brockman Nice chatting earlier. As I mentioned on the phone, here's the latest early draft of the blog post:…
  2. Nov 22, 2015 Elon Musk Blog sounds good, assuming adjustments for neutrality vs being YC-centric. I'd favor positioning the blog to…
  3. Dec 8, 2015 Elon Musk It is super important to get the opening summary section right. This will be what everyone reads and what the…
  4. Dec 11, 2015 Elon Musk Congratulations on a great beginning! We are outmanned and outgunned by a ridiculous margin by organizations…