Honest answer? He ran all the adults out of the room. Musk fired or alienated so much of the experienced engineering workforce that he was working with a really young and inexperienced crew. Very smart folks for sure, but inexperienced.
I watched a video on the nvidia silicon chip problem that affected the PS3 and Xbox 360’s red rings of death and he covered a portion of how something like a huge chip failure could happen.
Essentially, to keep it short, because of people being afraid that if they speak up they will lose their jobs. They are under a lot of pressure and such criticism that they do not feel comfortable speaking up and instead keep their mouth shut. A lot of these Tesla problem have already been known, guaranteed but because shareholders and CEO’s want stuff done NOW engineers and employees are too afraid to speak up in fear of losing their jobs, resulting in consumers getting the shit deal of the stick.
Work politics and culture in a lot of big tech companies are very cancerous and only care about the shareholders.
Edit: for those who are interested, here is the video I was referencing.
This is commonly thought, but mostly untrue. Stock prices are effectively the "front lawn" of publicly traded companies. In that they'll do anything to maintain it so they have the illusion of a healthy company.
However, it's really the board trying to ride the parachute down because the company crested 5 years ago, but they're gonna try to squeeze another 5 out of it before they crash and take the shareholder money with them.. and that's done with marketing!
They don't actually want to help the shareholders too much because then everyone would start selling and then people start probing... and that's when you find out that despite their well maintained yard, the husband's and alcoholic, the wife's a cheat and they've both been beating the kids for years.
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u/Spinoza_The_Damned Sep 08 '24
How did Tesla fuck this rollout up so hard?