{"id":7331,"date":"2016-04-07T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2016-04-07T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T21:20:03","slug":"david-sacks-insight-on-producing-and-self-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/david-sacks-insight-on-producing-and-self-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"David Sacks Insight On Producing and Self Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Wright Brothers sold bikes to fund building an airplane.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Elon Musk sold stuff to fund building more stuff.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/502336796601380864\/84Rme0dF_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>David Sacks (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidsacks?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@DavidSacks<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidsacks\/status\/716831406668656640?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">4\/3\/16, 8:35 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The master plan is:<br \/>\nBuild sports car<br \/>\nUse that money to build an affordable car<br \/>\nUse that money to build an even more affordable car&#8221; &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The sports car = something a small segment like a lot<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"0601B9D0-BF3D-4F78-A660-2F4D67145673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image16.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/502336796601380864\/84Rme0dF_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">David Sacks (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidsacks?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@DavidSacks<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidsacks\/status\/716830685583908864?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4\/3\/16, 8:32 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">I love it when a plan comes together &#8212; especially when blogged 10 years in advance.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hEzEeQKlQK\">teslamotors.com\/blog\/secret-te\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/download?ref_src=MailTweet-iOS\">Download<\/a>\u00a0the Twitter app to follow\u00a0<\/span><b><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidsacks?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">DavidSacks<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div>Read:\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/blog\/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-just-between-you-and-me\">Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me) | Tesla Motors<\/a><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0from David Sacks\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidsacks\/status\/716830685583908864?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">Tweet<\/a><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<ol style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px; list-style: none;\">\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Build sports car<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Use that money to build an affordable car<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Use\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;\">that<\/em>\u00a0money to build an even more affordable car<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none 0px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">While doing above, also provide zero emission electric power generation options<\/span><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Self funding is expanded more.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Building that first sports car was a signature business recipe called #ExternalAPI<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">An External Api helps you Cross the chasm From the Right.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang The Wright Brothers sold bikes to fund building an airplane. Elon Musk sold stuff to fund building more stuff. David Sacks (@DavidSacks) 4\/3\/16, 8:35 PM &#8220;The master plan is: Build sports car Use that money to build an affordable car Use that money to build an even more affordable car&#8221; &#8230; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-venture-capital"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}