No, they aren’t. I’ve worked in and on startups for 14+ years and the only times I’ve seen this is when insolvency is in the extremely near future and payroll is on the line.
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How do you define an act of desperation? For Tesla example it is asking for people across the company for help. Are you saying you don’t see this often in the 14 years you’ve worked at startups? I’m not at a startup and this is common for big goals.
They’re your words, not mine.
What you’re describing is collaboration.
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They’re 15 years in now. The startup excuse is over.
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This guy just doesn’t give up, he’ll be inline when they start handing out the kool aid
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He already put his deposit down on a nice glass.
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It is a preferred style of management rather than an indication of how long in business.
Martin Tripp, the Tesla whisteblower, has filed a countersuit. This was the guy that Musk called out as the internal saboteur or whatever. The legal mumbo-jumbo can be found here: Human Verification
The juicy parts start near page 12 about parts that should have been scrapped were reused instead to ensure Model 3 production was on time. If I’m reading this correctly, the timeline of things are as follows:
- Tripp is told at orientation that when batteries for the Model 3 short circuit, they are prone to thermal runaway situations. This is extremely hazardous and any short circuited batteries should be scrapped.
- Tripp learns that a robot was puncturing battery packs. ~1200 battery packs were affected.
- Tripp looks at the pierced batteries and confirms that they are all short circuited. Looks up the batteries in their internal system, they are all marked as scrap.
- Tripp learns later that instead of scrapping the batteries, techs were “reworking” the battery by putting in some filler and resealing the battery. Tripp doesn’t believe the reworked batteries were ever put through QA.
- Tripp tracks these dented, scrapped batteries. The system reports that 732 of the dented / punctured batteries ended up in Model 3s that were either shipped or were to be shipped to customers.
- After raising this issue within the company, the tracking system that allowed Tripp to uncover the issue is disabled.
It seems that in their rush to get enough Model 3 vehicles to customers to meet their goals, they shipped cars that had dented or punctured battery packs. These have the capability of entering a state known as thermal runaway, which produces things like this:
https://i.imgur.com/i9k4wwy.gif
(This is footage after a stolen Tesla Model S was crashed, the battery packs were punctured, and cells started going into thermal runaway)
As Elon Musk has said:
“That’s our other rule,” Musk continues. “Safety third. There’s not even a Rule Number Two. But even though there’s nothing in second place, safety is not getting promoted to number two.”
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Why is every whistleblower named Tripp?
Like mother like son?
Because they make powerful people trip?
Just two? His orange idol has thousands.
So Tesla is correct, and Tripp isn’t, is what you’re saying.
In reality, the truth lies in between somewhere, and more than likely, both were in the wrong in some regard. How much you wanna bet there will be a settlement with both parties saying there was no wrong doing, so the real truth will never get out.
Trip says battery packs were dented and punctured. No doubt that is true. But the battery pack is made from many little batteries. Not too difficult to replace damaged cells with new ones and thus the battery pack as a whole is as good as new.
Unless this was true. With that said, fanboi or not, nobody knows the whole truth with the exception of possibly those who are employed close to this, so to exonerate either of these two of wrongdoing without a trial and all of the facts is silly.
