What Max Chafkin has said about Tesla, Inc.
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 23, 2026
Max Chafkin, Bloomberg Businessweek columnist and author of The Contrarian, a biography of Peter Thiel, has been quoted on Tesla, Inc. once in 1 episode of The Builders, most recently on October 23, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Chafkin argued Trump's removal of EV subsidies helped Tesla by driving rival non-Chinese automakers out of EVs.
“But that's kind of worked for Tesla in a way because it's caused every other automaker to. outside of China to like give up on EVs”
The Builders: After The Builders: On Musk and Thiel (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 28:19
Episodes
After The Builders: On Musk and ThielThe Builders · Oct 23, 2026 · 50 min
TechStuff's Oz Woloshyn and Mangesh Hattikudur join journalists Max Chafkin and Faiz Siddiqui to dissect The Builders' interviews with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
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