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What Elon saw, was that the rocket companies was multiplying BOM with 200, when it could have been a smaller number.

There is nothing wrong to multiply BOM with 10. It’s almost as low as you can get it when operating a business.

But when you find a market which is marking up with 200, you have found yourself an opportunity for a competing business.



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