Ashok was the first person hired from my tweet on Tesla building Autopilot team: Musk
Tesla CEO and the world's richest person Elon Musk on Wednesday tweeted, "Ashok was the first person recruited from my tweet saying that Tesla is starting an Autopilot team." He was referring to Ashok Elluswamy, who's now serving as the head of Autopilot engineering at Tesla. Musk had posted the tweet about hiring people to build Autopilot team in 2015.