Elon Musk

If I get one more call from an Apple recruiter.

But they were opening off without any interview with me, like double the compensation at Tesla.

Yeah.

So we had a bit of the Tesla pixie dust thing where it's like, oh, if you hired a Tesla executive, suddenly everything's going to be successful.

And I've fallen prey to the pixie dust thing as well, where it's like, oh, we'll hire someone from Google or Apple and they'll be immediately successful.

But that's not how it works.

People are people.

It's not like magical pixie dust.

Yes.

So when we had the pixie dust problem, um, we would get relentlessly recruited.

Um, and, um,

And then also Tesla being engineering, especially being primarily in Silicon Valley, it's easier for people to just, like they don't have to change their life very much.

They can just, you know, their commute is going to be the same.

I don't think there's much we can do to stop it.

But that's one of the reasons why it tells a... Really, being in Silicon Valley and having the Pixie Dust thing at the same time meant that there was just a very, very aggressive recruitment.

Austin, yeah, it still helps.

I mean, Tesla still has a majority of its engineering in California.

the, you know, for getting engineers to move, I call it the significant other problem.

Yes.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.