> How did Tesla manage to create this when GM has been making cars for decades and that is the singular focus of the company? (replaced the subjects with auto-

> How did Tesla manage to create this when GM has been making cars for decades and that is the singular focus of the company? (replaced the subjects with auto-industry corollaries) I think it's the power of vertical integrations. When you aren't cobbling together a bunch of general-purpose bits for general-purpose consumers, you don't have to pay as many taxes. Sort of like SRP in software - a multi-purpose function is going to become super bloated and expensive to maintain, compared to several single-purpose alternatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-responsibility_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-responsibility_principl... Vertical integration is like taking horizontally-integrated business units and refactoring them per SOLID principles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID