+1 What a great quote!!
I'm going by memory here here so don't shoot me about the details. I think this was just after the superchargers were first announced, I remember either reading or seeing a video where Elon essentially said "We've developed this technology [i.e., separate from CHAdeMO, SAE etc] because we can't afford to wait for all the arguing to finish that everyone wants to do about standardization." I'm paraphrasing scandalously here, welcome to my memory.
I've seen many people since then (most often NOT on TMC) kind of lightly bitch about "Tesla's making up yet another standard, why can't everybody just get along". But besides the immediate benefit the supercharger infrastructure gives Model S owners and advances the marketing of the Secret Master Plan, the whole rationale about speed to implement and delays caused by standards negotiation between companies just resonated with me. My career was much about standards development for information management, and boy, do different people (sections, departments, subsidiaries, companies...) ever have different wish lists and never-ending suggestions and demands for change. It just takes forever. So I thought (think, believe) this was yet another master stroke of genius.
Recently the only standard I've developed is not using the brake until that last 3mph/5kph.