Tesla's Automation Overreach
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A story about how Tesla almost killed the company by trying to automate their factory too quickly.
"There's a famous story of the Tesla manufacturing plant where they tried to create basically a robo factory right off the jump. They said 'Oh why do we need to do all this? We'll just automate the whole thing.' They basically almost killed the company by trying to overdo the automation at the start rather than doing that at the end of the process."
40:19 - 40:34
Full video: 44:36SP
Shaan Puri
Host of MFM
Shaan Puri is the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Milk Road. He previously worked at Twitch as a Senior Director of Product, Mobile Gaming, and Emerging Markets. He also attended Duke University.