A funny thing about Tesla is the mentality behind their innovation drive.
Tesla is often criticized for its production methods and other things where they veer well off the well trodden ways of conventional automakers.
Tesla often tries things that fail at first. It turns out that at Tesla failure is not just a calculated risk but also - by design - an opportunity to learn.
Some of Musk's quotes I took from
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You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.
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A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold. You should seek that from everyone you can but particularly your friends. Usually, your friends know what’s wrong, but they don’t want to tell you because they don’t want to hurt you. [Even if you don’t agree with their feedback,] You at least want to listen very carefully to what they say.
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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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When you try new things you could fail or strike gold. If you fail and understand why you failed you are better prepared for the next try. But you have to learn.
Doing things just like you're told to do teaches you nothing.
This approach has worked for all the companies Musk has been involved in: Zip2, X.com, SpaceX and Tesla.
No doubt it will work for the Boring Company too, but as they only started at the end of 2016 they haven't had time enough to accumulate a decent set of failures yet.
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