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To increase production of Tesla's Model S, Elon Musk set up a production line in the parking lot. It took them two weeks.

Just weeks before, short sellers had sent drones to Tesla's manufacturing plant. They had decided Tesla couldn't possibly produce enough cars. Consequently, they had increased their short positions and were about to lose a lot of money.

To convince himself and his teams of the power of speed, Elon Musk tells the story of the SR-71 Blackbird, a retired military airplane that was never shot down because it was too fast for missiles to hit it.

Plane

"Men jag är inte intensiv, jag är en fucking G" - Silvana Imam