As startups and major OEMs alike strive to innovate and scale, the roadmap laid out by Elon Musk for rocket engineering offers some insightful guidelines, particularly for those venturing into autonomous farm machinery.

Tesla has been a shock to the consumer car system, and it’s worth considering how Tesla created those shockwaves, including whether they are relevant to agriculture.

What will Elon Musk's impact be on agriculture? This is what I kept thinking after reading his biography by Ashlee Vance (Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future) and, although the only part about agriculture was a brief period in Musk’s life working on a family farm in Canada, I think there is a lot agriculture can learn from entrepreneurs like Musk.