Elon Musk and his team of experts (CFO Zachary Kirkhorn and Martin Viecha, director of investor relations among others) shared some comments during Tesla's latest earnings call.
Notice how he makes sure that various global powers - his stakeholders - all have big cities (skin) in the game: Berlin (EU), Shanghai (China), Austin (US). Factories compete for producing a given model or product, just like nations competed to be the site for Tesla's factory - in a recursive survival-of-the-fittest play of global proportions.
A company - an organization of people - is like a factory. Each person is like one of those 10.000 parts or processes mentioned, with an S-curve describing their individual mental transition from the "old" way of working to the "new" way. Elon implicitly makes this link when he goes from "10.000 parts" to "tens of thousands of Tesla employees"
Elon proactively manages investor expectations regarding timelines ("12-24 months"), buying his teams time to deliver with quality. "We continue to grow as fast as we can while focusing on cost control and improving quality" - of the products and processes, but also of the people working for Tesla.
When Elon is done, he suggests to "move on to questions". His teammate gently reminds him that the CFO would also like to say a few words. This little exchange illustrates why running an eco-system or a company is teamwork - one person simply cannot have all the skills and insights required to manage/balance everything.
The CFO reinforces the locality messaging, tying investments to cities. Tesla is in-sourcing battery cell production in select factories.
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