Jon McNeill

Totally simplifies the factory.

It simplifies the supply chain.

We could increase throughput dramatically.

Turned to Doug, what does it mean for engineering?

He's like, are you kidding me?

Like, I don't have to design all these parts.

I don't have to test them.

I can port engineering's time on the stuff that really matters to the job to be done for the customer.

I'm totally in.

So then I walk into the senior management team meeting and, um, and one of the team members was like, Hey, you are the new guy.

You don't understand like it's religion here.

We do build order.

And like, it might be religion, uh, but that religion might take you to the grave.

Here's why, here's what happens to the business.

If we do this, we're going to get rid of a lot of clicks, a lot of decision fatigue.

If we just get down to two configurations and you can make it three, if you want, I don't care, but you can't make it 360,000.

Right.

And Elon, he's super rational.

He looked at the case and listened to Greg and listened to Doug.

And he was like, yeah, we have to do this.