either by choice or by being pushed. And Tesla really needed to build up its kind of leadership ranks and engineering and ranks. And Elon had gone through a series of people, but hadn't quite found the kind of the engineered oversee the car development that could put his vision on the road. And a very important thing happened in early 2009. And that was the hiring of a man named Peter Rawlinson. And Peter was a car engineer from the UK who had worked at Jaguar and Lotus and hadn't had a traditional automotive career path, but was very interested in what was possible and how to do things quicker from a development standpoint. And Elon kind of latched onto him early on in 2009 and hired him. And he became the guy to put on the street the vision for what the Model S was going to be. Elon had hired a young kind of up and coming car designer to put the vision of what it would look like. And JB Straubel had figured out how to do the propulsion. And Peter Rawlinson was going to be the guy (32/40)
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