Yeah, sometimes I think the fact that Tesla doesn't use the standard model year format can hurt them.
It's great for on-the-fly changes, but that can backfire because it also gives the ability to jump around and instead of sustained focus on certain projects for set timeframes, it lends itself to hopping to whatever someone deems the "hot" thing.
So smaller teams get stretched thin. And we know Elon runs his companies on skeleton crews whenever possible.
I can just imagine after every investors meeting after talking to someone influential, he's on the phone switching a team's priority list.
The established car makers do things a certain way for a reason. And as much as I'm all for a disruptor, you don't do something different for sake of being different. It should be an improvement, or at the very least, not worse. And when Tesla had 2-3 models, his way can work.
But at scale, his ideas are becoming cumbersome.
Tesla is the first company Elon has kept that reached this scale. His previous companies he sold before getting this big. So I think he's just stuck in his company building mentality and hasn't learned how to change gears at scale. I hope he learns quickly. But from the looks of how he eviscerated Twitter, an already established large company, doesn't look like he's learning from the mistakes.
