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It would seem that Elon's personal business model is an inversion of the "under-promise, over-deliver" dictum. I wonder when it will catch up to him.
by briga 9y ago
It would seem that Elon's personal business model is an inversion of the "under-promise, over-deliver" dictum. I wonder when it will catch up to him.
- valuearb 9y agoFalcon Heavy launch was always linked to the pad preparation as a gating factor. They tried hard to get it cleaned up after the explosion but didn't quite make it.
- stcredzero 9y agoWhen what you deliver is still fantastic, people will forgive you for the pie in the sky promises.
- briga 9y agoSure, it's just hard to take any of his dates seriously when they're consistently wrong. I love the guy, but he tends to stretch himself a bit thin.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 9y agoMy theory is that the public date announcements are actually a bit of a perverse incentive to motivate his employees to work longer hours to meet the arbitrary date specified.
- Udik 9y agoAnd himself. Sometimes you'd never start a project if you thought "it'll take me years".
- gozur88 9y agoI'm not sure it's that he's stretched thin or just that he never pads his estimates. When Elon Musk says he's going to deliver X in three months, the unspoken coda is always "assuming every bit of uncertainty falls my way". And of course, it never does in a nontrivial project. For anyone.
- _JamesA_ 9y agoWin some, lose some. That's part of the game. http://mashable.com/2017/11/22/tesla-battery-powerpack-australia/ http://mashable.com/2017/11/22/tesla-battery-powerpack-austr...