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‘The Last Bet-the-Company Situation’: Q&A With Elon Musk

An in-depth conversation with Tesla’s chief executive on his scars from a year in hell and trying to be nicer on Twitter.

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Elon Musk has been tweeting a lot over the past few months.

As Tesla Inc. lurched toward a Musk-imposed deadline to build 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans in a week, the chief executive lashed out against a wide group of people he came to see as his company’s detractors. Journalists, Wall Street analysts, short sellers, labor unions and even federal crash-safety investigators found themselves on the receiving end of his prolific Twitter output. He knows it needs to stop.

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