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How is this different than Tesla? http://blog.sfgate.com/energy/2014/02/28/tesla-from-the-brin...

It was near death yet Musk is now a SV hero?

Tesla survived. That's the difference. If Tesla would have failed you would have seen the same amount of criticism because it's, for the lack of a better term, a dick move. Though from what I hear at least some people at Tesla knew about it.

Tesla was never a few days from having to lay off the entire staff.

Even a few weeks out from bankruptcy, they had $9 million in the bank and payroll has seniority.

Personally, there's a huge difference between waking up and finding out my job was lost overnight and getting a week or two notice.

Near death and dead are very different.

Only in hindsight.

Didn't GM et. al. go bankrupt the same year Telsa nearly did?

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