Has any company made a bigger impact on the automotive sector in the last decade than Tesla? Love them or hate them, in electrification, auto dealership structure and passenger car autonomy Tesla has masterfully used the extraordinary latitude it’s been afforded by investors to disrupt of the industry.  We revisit and offer updated commentary from our original Everybody Hates Tesla episodes of a few years ago.  

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Host: Ali Tabibian of GTK Partners.  

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(0:00) Updated introduction 

(4:41) Beginning of “Everybody Hates Tesla, Part 2”  

(5:08) Supply chain 

(17:41) Dealerships 

(21:39) Self-driving 

Link to Ben Thompson’s Stratechery article on Waymo vs Tesla approaches to self-driving.