Elon Musk once said starting an electric car company is 'idiocy squared' — now Tesla just hit 1 million cars

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Starting electric car company Tesla was “idiocy squared,” according to Elon Musk. (via CNBCMakeIt)

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks during the Tesla China-Made Model 3 Delivery Ceremony at the company's Gigafactory in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020.Starting electric car company Tesla was "idiocy squared," according toOf course, that didn't stop Musk from getting into the business.

"I thought our chances of success [Tesla] were so low that I didn't want to risk anyone's funds in the beginning but my own," Musk wrote in 2016 in his "

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