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I have been posting a lot of SpaceX kudos lately, but they absolutely deserve it. I wonder if Tesla were private, away from the watering mouths of Wall Street

I have been posting a lot of SpaceX kudos lately, but they absolutely deserve it. I wonder if Tesla were private, away from the watering mouths of Wall Street greed, it could do a lot better.

adventured 7y ago
Being public isn't the primary problem for Tesla. Tesla would do a lot better if they had a world-class industrial CEO like Alan Mulally or the equivalent running the show. Tesla needs their Gwynne Shotwell. Musk should focus on product, technology, evangelizing, etc. Tesla needs more Tim Cook right now, pushing manufacturing efficiencies and process perfection, than it needs a Steve Jobs running the show. There is no great reason Musk needs to be CEO of Tesla, his particular skill is elsewhere.
- Jedd 7y ago
  Always compelling to see people who aren't Elon, Tim, Alan, Steve, or Gwynne describing what large corporations need to do.
  - zaroth 7y ago
    Seriously this. A Tesla wouldn’t be a Tesla if not for Elon at the helm. They’re producing nearly 1,000/day at this point. I’d say they’re in for quite a nice Q2. Once Giga3 turns on (optimistically targeted to be by the end of the year), they’ll be producing at a rate of over half a million cars a year. Hard to believe they’ll have the battery capacity for that (37.5GW)
- sidcool 7y ago
  Manufacturing/logistics companies are inherently long term investments. It's not possible to get immediate profits from them. I opine that things would be more or less the same even if Gwynne or Tim Cook took the helm. What may miss without Elon is the coolness factor. I know it sounds weird but much of Tesla exists today because of the excitement around what the Tesla team does with the car next.
- AstralStorm 7y ago
  Yes, he needs a few clones of himself to help run the show. (Or at least really good impersonators.)

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I have been posting a lot of SpaceX kudos lately, but they absolutely deserve it. I wonder if Tesla were private, away from the watering mouths of Wall Street

by sidcool 7y ago

I have been posting a lot of SpaceX kudos lately, but they absolutely deserve it. I wonder if Tesla were private, away from the watering mouths of Wall Street greed, it could do a lot better.

adventured 7y ago
Being public isn't the primary problem for Tesla. Tesla would do a lot better if they had a world-class industrial CEO like Alan Mulally or the equivalent running the show. Tesla needs their Gwynne Shotwell. Musk should focus on product, technology, evangelizing, etc. Tesla needs more Tim Cook right now, pushing manufacturing efficiencies and process perfection, than it needs a Steve Jobs running the show. There is no great reason Musk needs to be CEO of Tesla, his particular skill is elsewhere.
- Jedd 7y ago
  Always compelling to see people who aren't Elon, Tim, Alan, Steve, or Gwynne describing what large corporations need to do.
  - zaroth 7y ago
    Seriously this. A Tesla wouldn’t be a Tesla if not for Elon at the helm. They’re producing nearly 1,000/day at this point. I’d say they’re in for quite a nice Q2. Once Giga3 turns on (optimistically targeted to be by the end of the year), they’ll be producing at a rate of over half a million cars a year. Hard to believe they’ll have the battery capacity for that (37.5GW)
- sidcool 7y ago
  Manufacturing/logistics companies are inherently long term investments. It's not possible to get immediate profits from them. I opine that things would be more or less the same even if Gwynne or Tim Cook took the helm. What may miss without Elon is the coolness factor. I know it sounds weird but much of Tesla exists today because of the excitement around what the Tesla team does with the car next.
- AstralStorm 7y ago
  Yes, he needs a few clones of himself to help run the show. (Or at least really good impersonators.)