Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that Apple engaged in an intense talent war with Tesla during its development of electric vehicles. Apple's recruitment team intensively contacted Tesla employees, to the point of harassment, prompting Tesla engineers to unplug their office phones to focus on work. Apple also directly offered salaries double those at Tesla, without requiring interviews. Musk referred to this indiscriminate poaching as the 'fairy dust' effect, but he also admitted that he once believed in the 'halo effect' of Google or Apple. However, reality shows that relying solely on the background of big companies makes it difficult to achieve the expected business results.
