What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months?

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In this episode of the Neon Show Podcast, we take you through Jay Vijayan’s journey from working with Tesla, VMware, and Oracle to building a Billion Dollar Company, Tekion.
Tekion has raised $150 million as part of its Series C financing led by private equity firm Advent International, at over $1 billion valuation.
Jay’s insights which we discussed during the podcast are on -
00:58 - From working at Oracle, VMware, & Tesla to Founding Tekion
05:21 - From bootstrapping to getting VC funding
10:25 - Thoughts on Founder & VC alignment
13:40 - Challenges for startups in the Automotive retail industry
16:13 - Building a single platform for OEMs, dealers & customers
22:25 - Getting General Motors, Nissan-Mitsubishi, FM Capital, Exor (Fiat Chrysler, Ferrari) on Tekion’s cap table
24:02 - Developing end-to-end solution for Mid-Small Dealers - Automotive Retail Cloud
31:08 - ARR growth
42:19 - Creating transparency for customers while buying a new car
49:52 - “Life is a never-ending journey of learnings”.
54:58 - What has always stopped him from settling down?
58:19 - “When an egg-shell break from within - Life begins, but when it breaks from outside - Life ends.”- Jay’s philosophy on continuously pushing himself
1:03:25 - What made Elon Musk approach Jay twice in a span of 12 months for the CIO role at Tesla
1:14:17 - What core things he learned from working with Elon at Tesla?
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[@AlexandruJalea]

Thanks for the upload. I really enjoy listening to Jay. He managed to do great things. I like how he describes his mental state. Really insightful.

[@TheNeonShoww]

Thank you Alexandru for listening to this ep. Hope to get more feedback from you on other episodes :)

[@rajroop08]

Super impactful. One of the best interactions O have heard in the recent times.

[@TheNeonShoww]

Happy to hear your feedback :) Stay tuned

[@Raja-b2k4b]

Great conversation and lessons 👌

[@TheNeonShoww]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for tuning in :)

[@harishrallabandi4263]

Thanks a lot Siddharth, Jay Vijayan, so candid

[@jaishankar6033]

Great job 100x !

[@robertsprasath8901]

Great Content! Very useful.

[@TheNeonShoww]

Thank you Roberts!! Your comment means a lot to us :) Stay Tuned!

[@dattachoudhari4536]

Jay.....how do you visualise your business model getting replicated in next 5 years .so how you will do changes .

[@aswiniprasadyalavarthy6789]

Jay’s journey is really inspiring! @100x Entrepreneur Could you please help me with Jay’s email.

[@shikharverma5897]

He sound's like Indian Chess Grandmaster Adhiban Bhaskaran.

[@divakaryadav8174]

His Company Tekion is completely fraud. Interested People go check their reviews on glassdoor.

[@nagabala5011]

4.3 ratings on glass door could you say why you dislike him ?