Jason Calcanis has always been a Tesla fan. I know this because when he used to run Mahalo (in Santa Monica), he managed to open the door of his Roadster and scratch up the paint on my not near as cool Scion tC parked right beside him. In typical form, he didn't care at all when I mentioned it to him at the Django meetup, in the Mahalo office. Small world :)
This was maybe 6 or 7 years ago.