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Jul 2020
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Nicole Cook - Program Manager w/ Panason...

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In the race to produce the world’s most popular electric vehicle, Tesla shook the automotive industry to its core by bringing a Silicon Valley approach to car manufacturing. 

But to get to heaven, sometimes you have to walk through hell, and in the case of Tesla, that was “production hell.” According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, there was a “tiny” number of people who believed they would succeed. With the credibility (and future) of the whole company at stake, the Tesla team put in 16-hour days to hit the goal of making 5,000 Model 3’s per week. 

In the midst of all this insanity, Nicole Cook accepts a role at Tesla as a Senior Technical Program Manager, moving across the country on a Sunday night and starting work that Monday morning in one of the most challenging ramp ups in the history of the automotive industry. How did Nicole handle the transition and the constant challenges she had to overcome? Find out all of this and more in today’s interview.

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