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"It didn’t take long for the culture clash to boil over. After he had identified one too many defects, a colleague took the production team’s frustrations with Frank up the ladder. As Frank remembers it, “Elon Musk came out and said, ‘We’re not building Toyotas.’” The message was clear: unlike other car companies, Tesla was not focused on consistent quality. Before long, Frank would be fired. Payback, most likely, for giving a crap about quality and being vocal about it."