"The 90-minute discussion that followed was extraordinary-not for anything specific that Davis said, but simply for the fact that he was saying something. The Boring Co., like Musk's other companies, prides itself on shunning the mainstream media. It ignores questions from journalists. It doesn't even have a public relations department. Davis, a close ally and longtime "fixer" for Musk, has a reputation for avoiding speaking engagements, and rarely surfaces in public."
"And yet, here he was sitting down for a live conversation with an ex-TV reporter; Weeks later, Davis personally escorted a Las Vegas Review Journal reporter on a rare tour of the tunnels Boring Co. is constructing under the city; he also rode in a Tesla with a YouTuber in January, enthusiastically pointing out items of interest as they travelled through the completed section of tunnel known as the Las Vegas Loop."
""We're not transparent enough, so we're glad that you're here," Davis told the Las Vegas reporter on the tunnel tour this month. The timing may not be coincidental. As Fortune first reported, the Boring Co. was recently fined for dumping wastewater into Las Vegas manholes, and an investigation into firefighters getting burned in its tunnels led a member of Congress to demand Nevada's Governor for more transparency."
Steve Davis, president of Elon Musk's $5.6 billion tunneling startup Boring Company, appeared on X for a livestream and later escorted reporters through tunnels in Las Vegas. The Boring Company typically shuns mainstream media, ignores journalists, and lacks a public relations department. Davis has a reputation for avoiding public engagements but recently increased public visibility. The shift in outreach coincided with regulatory and safety problems, including fines for dumping wastewater into Las Vegas manholes and an investigation into firefighters getting burned in tunnels. A member of Congress demanded greater transparency, and local opposition and proposed legislation emerged in Nashville where the company plans its next Loop project.
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