Elon Musk-style vertical integration is necessary to drive robotics costs down

Elon Musk-style vertical integration is necessary to drive robotics costs down | The way you get to abundance is you drive prices down and you get vertically integrated. And Elon in our country pioneered that

The way you get to abundance is you drive prices down and you get vertically integrated. And Elon in our country pioneered that

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