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Ben Bold
May 18, 2023

‘Advertising is awesome and everyone should do it’: Tesla's Elon Musk U-turns

Musk has previously said that he hates advertising but acknowledged that Tesla was often ‘preaching to the choir’.

Musk: 'So we’ll try a little advertising and see how it goes.' (Getty Images/Frederic J Brown)

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