It was a difficult thing that was made more difficult
by one of our investors who was just an absolute
bastard, nobody should ever take money from them.
From Crunchbase here are my likely sources of bad investor groups (I've excluded individuals and Google):
> Compass Technology Partners 4 investments - from the start (probably not).
Valor Equity Partners 3 investments - from the start (probably not).
> JP Morgan 2 - maybe (unlikely)
Technology Venture Partners US 1 - (unlikely)
> Capricorn Management 2 - maybe (probably not)
VantagePoint Capital Partners 2 - maybe
Draper Fisher Jurvetson 2 - maybe
Now it seems that Musk didn't expect the investor to act like a douche. So I doubt it's JPMorgan (who are have been historically known to be douches).
It was probably one of the VC funds trying to squeeze Musk on TSLA during the GFC - a firm with whom he has dealt with before. I doubt that it was US tech ventures - since they don't have much weight.
It was probably one of the VC firms. I doubt it was the Europeans (once again not much weight).
So it's either DFJ or Vantage. I remember Sameer Bhatia (of hotmail fame) stating that DFJ loves a good squeeze (they tried to screw him by telling other VCs to back off) - so I wouldn't put it past them.
Vantage point has been known to manipulate deals and are probably the most likely along with DFJ.
This is all speculation - someone else help me narrow it down?
> Compass Technology Partners 4 investments - from the start (probably not).
Valor Equity Partners 3 investments - from the start (probably not).
> JP Morgan 2 - maybe (unlikely)
Technology Venture Partners US 1 - (unlikely)
> Capricorn Management 2 - maybe (probably not)
VantagePoint Capital Partners 2 - maybe
Draper Fisher Jurvetson 2 - maybe
Now it seems that Musk didn't expect the investor to act like a douche. So I doubt it's JPMorgan (who are have been historically known to be douches).
It was probably one of the VC funds trying to squeeze Musk on TSLA during the GFC - a firm with whom he has dealt with before. I doubt that it was US tech ventures - since they don't have much weight.
It was probably one of the VC firms. I doubt it was the Europeans (once again not much weight).
So it's either DFJ or Vantage. I remember Sameer Bhatia (of hotmail fame) stating that DFJ loves a good squeeze (they tried to screw him by telling other VCs to back off) - so I wouldn't put it past them.
Vantage point has been known to manipulate deals and are probably the most likely along with DFJ.
This is all speculation - someone else help me narrow it down?
Tesla Investors: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tesla-motors
DFJ: http://www.thefunded.com/funds/show/Draper+Fisher+Jurvetson
Vantage Point: http://www.thefunded.com/funds/show/VantagePoint+Venture+Par...