A Full Factory Can Be Worse than an Empty One

Here is the contrarian point: an empty factory can be a problem, but filling a factory with a product that is not ready can be worse. The temptation to quickly turn a promise into volume is enormous, especially when a company needs to justify massive investments. However, manufacturing thousands of units of a product that has yet to find a profitable use can create inventory, servicing costs, and frustration. Caution does not mean rejecting these bets. It means demanding evidence in stages. First, customers willing to pay. Then, repeat use. Next, margins and reliability. Only then does building massive industrial scale make sense.

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