{"id":14200,"date":"2015-05-06T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14200"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:27:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:27:37","slug":"elon-musk-had-a-deal-to-sell-tesla-to-google-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/elon-musk-had-a-deal-to-sell-tesla-to-google-in-2013","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-had-a-deal-to-sell-tesla-to-google-in-2013.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg Business \u2014 <span class=\"byline__by\">by<\/span> <a class=\"author-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/AQWHkoPod9g\/ashlee-vance\" rel=\"author\" data-view-uid=\"1|0_5_1_11_2_1\">Ashlee Vance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.gotraffic.net\/projector\/latest\/bplayer.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nBPlayer(null, {\"id\":\"Eqsuqgf3TaWqF2cbV_xJcw\",\"htmlChildId\":\"bbg-video-player-Eqsuqgf3TaWqF2cbV_xJcw\",\"serverUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/api\/embed\",\"idType\":\"BMMR\",\"autoplay\":false,\"video_autoplay_on_page\":true,\"log_debug\":false,\"ui_controls_popout\":false,\"use_js_ads\":true,\"ad_code_prefix\":\"\",\"ad_tag_gpt_preroll\":true,\"ad_tag_gpt_midroll\":true,\"ad_tag_sz_preroll\":\"1x7\",\"ad_tag_sz_midroll\":\"1x7\",\"ad_network_id_preroll\":\"5262\",\"ad_network_id_midroll\":\"5262\",\"ad_tag_cust_params_preroll\":\"\",\"ads_vast_timeout\":10000,\"ads_playback_timeout\":10000,\"wmode\":\"opaque\",\"use_comscore\":true,\"comscore_ns_site\":\"bloomberg\",\"comscore_page_level_tags\":{\"bb_brand\":\"bbiz\",\"bss_cont_play\":0,\"bb_region\":\"US\"},\"use_chartbeat\":true,\"chartbeat_uid\":\"15087\",\"chartbeat_domain\":\"bloomberg.com\",\"use_share_overlay\":true,\"share_metadata\":{\"canonical_url\":\"http:\/\/bloom.bg\/1Q9s8Le\"},\"vertical\":\"business\",\"zone\":\"article\",\"source\":\"BBIZweb\",\"module_conviva_insights\":\"enabled\",\"conviva_account\":\"c3.Bloomberg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":360,\"ad_tag\":\"\",\"ad_tag_midroll\":\"\",\"offsite_embed\":true});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On May 8, 2013, Tesla Motors shocked just about everyone by posting its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2013-05-08\/tesla-posts-first-quarterly-profit-on-model-s-deliveries\" target=\"_blank\">first-ever quarterly profit<\/a>, reporting higher-than-expected demand for its Model S electric sedan. That moment marked the beginning of a turnaround for Elon Musk\u2019s tumultuous automaker. The next year would see the Model S win most of the automotive industry\u2019s major awards and Tesla\u2019s share price rise roughly fivefold, to more than $200. The 2013 profit announcement was fortuitous. Just weeks before, Tesla had been on the verge of bankruptcy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-04-20\/elon-musk-had-a-deal-to-sell-tesla-to-google-in-2013\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Business \u2014 by Ashlee Vance On May 8, 2013, Tesla Motors shocked just about everyone by posting its first-ever quarterly profit, reporting higher-than-expected demand for its Model S electric sedan. That moment marked the beginning of a turnaround for Elon Musk\u2019s tumultuous automaker. The next year would see the Model S win most of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69956,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions\/69956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}