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I got a text message. It must have been
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early San Francisco time, so like after
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lunch UK time on a Sunday from one of
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the other board members saying, "We need
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to talk. Elon wants to join our board."
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And I I didn't know Elon, so it was a
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joke, basically. So, I called him and
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he's like, "Uh yeah, we need you to talk
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to Elon." And I was like, "Oh my god."
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Cuz the first line of defense is the
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nomination governance committee chair.
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Um anyway, as it was the the CEO and the
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the chair met him first and then I I met
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him afterwards. But, you know, in my
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official roles as chair of nomination
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governance committee, I had to manage a
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process
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uh that then turned into acquisition. I
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was also chair of the compensation
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committee, so there was a whole bunch of
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stuff around that with the acquisition
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of people's comp and what that was going
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to look like. And it was really intense.
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And then I was also on the transaction
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committee. There were just three of us,
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me and the chair and
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um Patrick Pichette. So, it was for a
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period of time it was like becoming an
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executive in the company.
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