Elon Musk’s Secret Michigan Empire “Elon Musk came in, bought up Riviera Tool & Die. This was before Donald Trump became president. So he came in, bought up Riviera Tool & Die because he wanted to start producing his stamping tools in the United States instead of Asia, because he was realizing there's a lot of problems that they were encountering with these foreign made tools. And it's hard to solve a problem when you have a language barrier. So he bought up Riviera Tool & Die reopens as Tesla Michigan in Grand Rapids. When he bought that up, he took a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy, that couldn't hire anybody to turned it, turned it into something awesome. I mean, the number of people that Tesla Grand Rapids now hires to build stamping tools right here in Grand Rapids. And then not just that, he farms out the work that Tesla Grand Rapids can't handle. To auto die, to Artiflex, to Greenville Tool and die, to Walker tool and die, to basically every die shop here in this region is making stuff for Tesla. He I don't know the number, but it's in the thousands upon thousands of jobs he has created just in West Michigan because he wanted to make his, his parts in America. How can you hate that? You really can't.”