he said tesla was teetering on -- bringo collapsef of collapse because of the model three delays. discuss. this is bloomberg. ♪ s. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: tesla's cash problem this past year was no secret, that in the midst of model three production problems and an investigation, do you expect the company to crash and burn completely? in an interview, even musk revealed how close the company was to collapse. he said tesla was within ks ofe-digit wee failure. >> tesla faces a new federal death due to model three production. the company's bleeding money like crazy and if we don't solve these problems over a good event of time we would be done. emily: joining us now is max check in. chafkin. he talked about how difficult it has been to run the country -- company but what you make of it by him putting it that way? max: back in april, there was a gag where you live and took a picture of himself looking as if you are homeless or something and said tesla is bankrupt. that that learning is was not as much of a joke as everybody thought it was at the time. as you said, this was out in