teslas level of leverage leaves anything other than a significant market share in the car market as a fatal outcome. it has no room for competitors, which is why i believe that musk got so defensive in a german newspaper when confronted with rumors of apples self-driving car project and began to so aggressively attack them: important engineers? they have hired people weve fired. we always jokingly call apple the tesla graveyard. if you dont make it at tesla, you go work at apple. im not kidding. j.b. straubel, teslas cto, said that employees can get afraid of musk. a former musk employee said to of him, elons worst trait by far, in my opinion, is a complete lack of loyalty or human connection. many of us worked tirelessly for him for years and were tossed to the curb like a piece of litter without a second thought. maybe it was calculated to keep the rest of the workforce on their toes and scared; maybe he was just able to detach from human connection to a remarkable degree. what was clear is that people who worked for him were like ammunition: used for a specific purpose until exhausted and discarded. how many of these new apple employees are arriving from tesla with a strong desire to give as big of a fuck you to musk as possible after being fired for failing to meet increasingly unreasonable product requirements and deadlines demanded by a foolhardy sociopath? teslas entire future is bound in the hope that google takes only the low end of next generation vehicles. if apple creates a luxury electric car, that alone is likely to destroy any hope of success. his current level of leverage leaves no room for the smallest of setbacks, or him scaling up operations in a crowded market with significantly capitalized competitors.
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