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Elon Musk Easter Egg - $10,000,000 (Austin Texas)
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This is one of those messages that sounds fake until you realize it isn’t.
I’m in possession of a small but very real artifact from the SolarCity era—specifically, the Crew Lead Training Gold Medal awarded to the winner of “The Arena,” SolarCity’s national crew-lead competition held in San Rafael at the Zep Solar facility. This took place shortly before the Tesla acquisition, and I earned the final medal ever issued.
“The Arena” wasn’t a team-building exercise—it was a pressure test of physical endurance, technical skill, and knowledge of electrical code. About 20–28 top crew leads were selected nationwide. SolarCity even housed us together in a duplex in San Francisco for the week long training event.
I represented and won on behalf of the Lemon Grove location that handled the Lincoln Military projects across San Diego.
At the time, SolarCity was a huge family operation, with you advising on business development and trajectory. This medal isn’t flashy. It’s not branded for resale. It’s not meant to be impressive to anyone except someone who understands what it represents: the culture, the grind, and the pre-Tesla phase where SolarCity was stress-testing people the same way it stress-tested ideas.
Think of it as a physical Easter egg from an early simulation build—before SolarCity merged into Tesla and before any of this was obvious in hindsight.
Yes, you could absolutely fabricate a replica. But this one has provenance, wear, and a story that only exists because things worked.
As for price: I’m asking $10 million, not because the metal is worth it, but because of multiple reasons that would interest you and I'd like to speak with you about those privately. Also because if you’re going to sell a piece of early Musk-adjacent history, you don’t do it sheepishly.
For transparency (and because engineers appreciate breakdowns), here’s where it would go:
• Roughly $5M to taxes
• $1M to reclaim a family home built by my wife’s grandfather—a WWII veteran, general contractor, and pastor who built much of our local community
• $1M into long-term retirement accounts for my wife and me
• $1M similarly structured for our two sons
• $1M for key family members
• $1M reserved for savings, investment opportunities, and inevitable life surprises
I’m not selling this out of desperation. I’m selling it because it belongs with the person who understands what it took to build SolarCity before it became history.
If you’re even mildly curious, I’m happy to talk. Worst case, you get a strange but true story. Best case, you own a small, authentic relic from before everyone knew how the story would end.
Either way—congratulations on winning the long game.