This Week in Elon

By Elizabeth Lopatto

This Week in Elon is a segment on The Vergecast hosted by Deputy Editor Elizabeth Lopatto and now available as a limited-run newsletter. If you want all of the dizzying news about Elon Musk and companies delivered to your inbox on Thursdays, subscribe!

Previous issues

🚨Elon is Elonning again

#21 Mar 14, 2019

This Year in Elon: The Influencer CEO

#20 Dec 20, 2018

Elon Musk doesn’t respect the SEC, which is still investigating Tesla

#19 Dec 13, 2018

#18

Dec 6, 2018

SpaceX's disappointing splashdown hardly seems to matter – One of the joys of being a private company — and the reason why Elon Musk prefers these kinds of comp
#17

Nov 29, 2018

Why so many people think Elon Musk is a hero — or a villain – Sorry for the delay — Revue decided to have technical difficulties. Anyway, we have an exciting glimp
#16

Nov 15, 2018

Live from Tesla's Gigafactory — Company towns and the things they breed – Welcome to This Week in Elon. Quick reminder: we are off next week for Thanksgiving. Enjoy the holida
#15

Nov 8, 2018

First up for Tesla's new chairwoman: probes from the SEC and DOJ – A programming note: I will be out of the country next week, hopefully snorkeling with sharks. In any
#14

Nov 1, 2018

Tesla is what happens when a car company behaves like a tech company – First, a special announcement! As a special birthday present (hello yes, it's my birthday!), Kara Swi
#13

Oct 25, 2018

Elon Musk successfully cosplays as a normal car company CEO – Honestly, who needs reality TV when you have Tesla?While Elon Musk spent most of Q3 publicly shooting
#12

Oct 18, 2018

Teslaquila is actually a good idea! – “Teslaquila” started as part of an April Fools’ Day joke — a troll holiday celebrated only by amateur
#11

Oct 11, 2018

James Murdoch as Tesla chairman would be bad news for Elon Musk – Ladies and gentlemen, we have board drama at Tesla! I live.I’m going to read some tea leaves, because
#10

Oct 4, 2018

After the SEC settlement, who will review Elon Musk's tweets? – Plenty of important and knowledgeable people have already weighed in on Elon Musk’s settlement with t
#9

Sep 29, 2018

BREAKING: Musk settles with SEC, ousted as chairman of Tesla – Elon Musk will remain CEO of Tesla as part of his settlement of the SEC's suit from Thursday, which w
#8

Sep 28, 2018

SEC sues Elon, who narcs out Grimes – I had written you a whole well-considered thing about labor in Silicon Valley and Tesla’s NLRB hearin
#7

Sep 27, 2018

BREAKING - Elon Musk sued by SEC over "funding secured" tweet – The SEC is seeking to prevent Elon Musk from holding executive positions at publicly traded companies
#6

Sep 20, 2018

SpaceX will get into space tourism; the US Department of Justice will get into Tesla – So, last Thursday, SpaceX announced there would be an event to reveal the first private passenger it
#5

Sep 13, 2018

This Week in Elon - Slippery people – To lose one major money person from your company may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two within
#4

Sep 6, 2018

This Week in Elon - The real Tesla killer might be inside the factory – Hi all, Sean O'Kane from The Verge's transportation team here. Liz is out in nature on a very well-de
#3

Aug 30, 2018

This Week in Elon: When Elon tweets, no one can ignore it – With apologies to Janet Malcolm, every investor who is not too stupid or full of themselves to notice
#2

Aug 24, 2018

BREAKING This Week in Elon - Tesla will stay public – Breaking — Tesla will remain public. Have a lovely Friday night!

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