The Algorithm Quotes

“(Tesla’s progress in autonomous driving has for years failed to deliver on Elon’s upbeat promises. To be fair”
― Jonathan McNeill, The Algorithm: The Hypergrowth Formula that Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors and SpaceX

“Elon had the head of production send him an email every hour until the problem was solved. For seven days”
― Jonathan McNeill, The Algorithm: The Hypergrowth Formula that Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors and SpaceX

“The back-and-forths between Elon and the manufacturing team dealt with levels of torque”
― Jonathan McNeill, The Algorithm: The Hypergrowth Formula that Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors and SpaceX

“Our goal was to produce 1,500 Model 3s per week. In our first week of manual assembly”
― Jonathan McNeill, The Algorithm: The Hypergrowth Formula that Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors and SpaceX

“The existential challenge we faced in 2017 was in the Bay Area’s Fremont plant. We had cash to last us ninety days. But death was much closer than that.”
― Jonathan McNeill, The Algorithm: The Hypergrowth Formula that Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors and SpaceX

“He later lamented that modernizing GM was “like teaching an elephant to tap dance.”
― Jonathan McNeill, The Algorithm: The Hypergrowth Formula that Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors and SpaceX