First-mover advantage has historically led to complacency.
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First-mover advantage has historically led to complacency. Sure, Tesla was first to scale in the U.S., but then Musk started focusing on the Quixotic quest toward self-driving -- which should show up just before fusion power -- and forgot the expectation car buyers have of annual incremental updates, with a general overhaul every five years. Honda isn't selling the same Civic as a decade ago.
IBM fell into this trap with PCs ahead of the clone wars. Intel is now finding out, having learned nothing from AMD's resurgence that forced it to start competing and the rise of ARM. Tesla feels rudderless, and Musk going batshit as the public face of the company isn't helping. Better to keep his shares and step down so competent leadership can be brought in.
Plenty more rockets he can be blowing up instead of myopically focusing on shit like the Cybertruck while running a far-right circlejerk.
