[hcnews]

Masayoshi Son is happy to lend you billions of dollars if you have a working SDC implementation.

[JumpCrisscross]

> billions of dollars

Production isn’t simply a throw-money-at-it problem. And in any case, if you can get billions to build you can get billions to buy.

[mbesto]

Mr Musk would like to have a word with you.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Mr Musk would like to have a word with you

Tesla had much more than massive capital availability. If anything, it spent most of its life at a significant capital deficiency relative to the competition.

For Tesla, there was nothing to buy. The only option was to build.