VCs will tell you “don’t vertically integrate, it’s a distraction” while investing in a dozen different companies. while completely ignoring that this is the playbook that works in the present, this is the playbook that worked in the industrializations, and the hardtech record for @Elonmusk associated companies vs VCs in general is hilariously positive for Elon and negative for the VCs people will tell you markets are efficient. the toil necessary to make an industrial giant is not efficient. it is a rare thing for someone to fight through what you need to do