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Elon Musk: “Outsourced manufacturing actually is the exception of the…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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ELON MUSK JOINS VERDICT - PART 2 Verdict Ep. 215

Published | Video Starts at 24:06

So the idea in the beginning of Tesla was that we would outsource almost all the manufacturing. But then it turned out there were no good companies to outsource manufacturing to. Really, it wasn't feasible. Outsourced manufacturing actually is the exception of the rule. And, and just over time we had to insource almost everything for Tesla and same for SpaceX. I became very good at manufacturing because I had to. There was no choice. (24:06–24:11)

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