Hacker Cinema
Risk Takers
Film · documentary · 60 min
Directed by Siddhesh Pandey
People of different faiths, gender and regions make up Mumbai, The huge human jigsaw in this vast urban sprawl with a population of about twenty million. We'll meet Kallu, who collects dead bodies from the Mithi River... Ambulance drivers like Raj Lokhande and Jeevan who race through narrow, jammed lanes to save lives daily... Former Red light area workers of Kamathipura - Asha and Shobha - who were sold, caged and forced into prostitution and now are part of the Oasis NGO, transforming the lives of other women... Construction workers Azaad, Janaab and Rajaram are employed daily on terrifying building sites, hoping to earn a happy home life while moving from one temporary dwelling to another... Fisherman Akash and his family are caught in a declining market with no guarantee of quality fish or decent prices due to contamination in the sea...
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Do you have any idea whatsoever how hard it is to have a successful venture in the automotive industry?
You really should watch the Bloomberg Risk Takers documentary on Elon. I'm against handouts as much as anyone (it's a loan though), but try making a comment like this afterward.
The difficulties he went thru to keep Tesla afloat were outrageous. By this time he been dumping his fortune into both this and SpaceX and was essentially at the point of personal bankruptcy (ie. was friends/associates time to keep moving, no one was willing to continue investing). Note in the article the sentence "Last month, Mercedes’ parent company Daimler also invested $50 million for a 10 percent stake in Tesla." Do yourself a favor and learn what Tesla actually did to make this happen. Yes, you may have heard they retrofitted Smart Cars with the Tesla power train, but how they did that is a breathtaking example of innovation and teamwork for a company at the brink of death.
In short, this loan saved the company. This article we're discussing right now would not exist. Tesla Motors would be another footnote in history that people could point to - "automotive startups are a losing proposition, do not invest". Would you rather the government bet on a guy like Elon who's actually putting his all into carrying out on a promise to change the game, or industry stalwarts who pissed away good will by incompetence and greed?