Elon Musk's Autonomous Taxi Business Model
Greg's Words
Musk is playing three-dimensional Majong while the rest of us are watching Saturday morning cartoons.  I believe him when he says managers and office workers at Tesla must be in the office.  When you're building something tangible, it is very poor form to have the folks on the line see colleagues working from the comforts of home - I get that in an automotive start-up.  A continuous state for Tesla.
And I understand the technique of demanding Twitter employees 'get back to the office' when he first took control of the Bluebird - he was giving those who didn't want to work at Twitter the opportunity to fly the coop.  And they did.
So when he nearly popped a blood vessel the other day, demanding "...people should get off their moral high horse with that work-from-home bullshit..."(People?  What 'People"?)  I took note.  Literally, I took notes.
But of course - just a scant few minutes earlier, he outlined how he could sell Teslas today at no profit, but look forward to 5 times more in the coming years - Tesla Taxi Mode.
He rarely publically displays that level of passion - even when his rocket ship blew up, his response was aplomb - but he slept on the shop floor in the early days of Tesla, an entire industry lined up against him even the White House shunned the guy.
He's all wrapped up in Tesla, his first and only child, so every perceived threat, real or unreal will be dealt with great prejudice.
That's it in a nutshell: for Tesla to outlast the rest, autonomous Tesla Taxi Mode is the key, and every Tesla that stays at home, eats into profits.
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