We live on a planet where hydrogen is super reactive. The proponents always say, ‘Oh, hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.’ But it’s abundant out there in the universe, not here. It’s a scam as far as I can tell, because the energy equation is terrible. If your goal is to reduce energy consumption - specifically oil consumption, but in any given resource - you want to use it as efficiently as possible, right? So you don’t want to pick something that consumes lots of it for no apparent reason, and hydrogen is uniquely bad. Little computers that control stuff? Silicon Valley is really good at that. so we were sure with some spreadsheet calculations that, in fact, you could put enough energy on a car to make it really compelling, I mean way better than any of these EV1s or anything else they’d ever imagined, and the rest of it is a computer science problem - because it’s really just computers synthesizing waveforms to make motors go - and a network problem because there’s lots of little computers required to do all of that, but, you know, that’s our world. They had gone really from nicad to nickel metal hydride, and then lithium-ion. So he was pissed off about that, and he said, ‘Why don’t we do this electric car thing? It can’t be that hard.’ And I thought: How are we ever going to make a car? Our experience with batteries in the consumer electronics world, with the ebooks, we knew batteries were getting better and better and better. And of course, GM took them back and crushed them. The EV1 was the only one that was kind of viable. Martin had this idea of - he’d wanted to buy an electric car, and it was right about the time the zero emissions mandate got re-written in Sacramento, so all the electric cars had ceased to exist.
So, Mr Tarpenning, the microphone is yours: They had zero automotive experience, but that would prove beneficial. This ain’t no five-minute sales pitch.Ĭontext: Tesla’s founders, Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard, had just built and sold an ebook specialty company called NuvoMedia, and now had cars on the brain.
ISLIDE SHARK TANK WHERE ARE THEY NOW TV
Certainly a good episode of Shark Tank, if TV allowed for a longer format. This is a long post for a site that favors brevity, but this is the stuff of a good book. TeslaMondo has mildly refined it for logical and temporal flow, and to delete the words “sort of,” which Tarpenning says almost as often as JB Straubel says “you know.” STEELERS is a registered trademark of the Pittsburgh Steelers LLC.Have you seen the TV show? Aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to venture capitalists, or “VCs.” Well, here’s how young Tesla Motors conceived, polished and pitched its big idea, as recounted by founder Marc Tarpenning in this under-exposed interview (also at bottom of this post). This site is neither endorsed, nor sponsored by, nor affiliated with Pittsburgh Steelers or NFL Properties LLC. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy.But hey, Brown is still boomin’ and he’ll be moving toward even more business opportunities. ISlide CEO Justin Kittredge ended up turning down what the other sharks thought was a really great offer, and even Brown didn’t understand why he would turn down $500,00 for a 20 percent share in his company. He is constantly wearing or trying to sell the custom “Boomin'” design as well as the ones sporting the cosmic paint job from the Rolls Royce he drove to training camp.īrown showed up during the presentation, a little late, and made the pitch to try and help the sharks want to invest. On Friday night, Brown made an appearance on Shark Tank to help promote a product he feels very strongly about, ISlide.īrown is not shy about showing his love for the custom slides. All you have to do is spend a bit of time on one of his various social media accounts to know that he is always working a deal or two. Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown is not only one of the best football players in the NFL, but he is also a shrewd businessman.
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