It can't be very pleasant for his employees to have a CEO that throws around those numbers publicly though. It seems like at some point down the management hier

It can't be very pleasant for his employees to have a CEO that throws around those numbers publicly though. It seems like at some point down the management hierarchy there must be a disconnect where people above the line are on board with the official timeline and people below the line are quietly planning a more reasonable timeline. Like "Elon thinks that we'll launch the Heavy in two years but that's obviously impossible, so don't burn yourself out trying to get it done." This sounds like a recipe for organizational dysfunction as people above the line are frustrated by the apparent lack of progress and wastefully provide the wrong level of resources given the actual status of the project.