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Comment by kami8845 | Hacker News Reader

What the hell are you talking about? Tesla is Tesla because of their incredible engineering talent. The rest they do to amplify their car building efforts. If you offered Elon 100 incredible engineers/lawyers/financiers, he'll take the engineers every time.

How many car startups that achieve wide distribution has America had in the past 100 years?

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What's special about their engineering?

You can easily point to ford and Toyota's major innovations that changed not only the car industry, but manufacturing on the whole.

The Prius also stands out as the big success on moving drivers off of fossil fuels. What's Tesla got?

At a surface view, I'd say their engineering is worse than their competitors. Poorly engineered products and manufacturing processes make for slow production -- a problem that Tesla is pretty famous for o think?

My understanding is that they design overly complex parts and use overly complex mechanisms to build their cars.

Elon’s 2 most important people at Tesla is his CFO and General Counsel. If you think otherwise pay closer attention to his earnings calls.

Why focus on earning calls and not, says, meetings with Chinese partners for his Shanghai Gigafactory? CFO and legal counsels, or similar roles, are pretty much always present in calls with investors for any public companies.

Also, what makes Tesla being Tesla is something invented centuries ago. The battery.

That is really quite crazy that a legally required event to discuss finances would prominently feature Tesla legal & finance. I think you might be onto something.

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