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> Tesla's speed of iteration and degree of verticalization make leaks and learnings harder to apply to other companies. This is a point that has more value tha
by woliveirajr 6y ago
> Tesla's speed of iteration and degree of verticalization make leaks and learnings harder to apply to other companies.
This is a point that has more value than IP itself.
Being ahead allows you to protect your research about some new tech that no one is looking at, ok.
But just having to figure details in a factory is the real thing, it's what makes difference. Quality is a product of repetition with near perfection. Figuring it out is time consuming, see Intel x TMSC.
- cma 6y agoTesla opened all their patents to competitors for this reason (under weird terms that no one has taken them up on, giving them more rights than the patent system itself ever gives, such as competitors can't copy their unpatented designs, even unknown future ones, if they take them up on the offer to use their patents for free). According to them patents aren't valuable, it's the velocity of innovation. It made for nice sound bites of how the valley works differently than stodgy old companies. But in reality it seemed to be a sham of you can use our patents only if you don't use our stuff that isn't even patented.