The extreme difficulty of scaling production of new technology is not well understood. It’s 1000% to 10,000% harder than making a few prototypes. The machine that makes the machine is vastly harder than the machine itself.

— Elon Musk, Tweet (2020)

Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1308284091142266881

From a tweet of 21 September 2020.

Topics: engineering leadership