It's implied. Everybody who does startups is competitive. Everybody who does a startup in SV is hypercompetitive.
You think the goal was to be the first through the glass take all the cuts that go with it and then pave the way for BYD ?
Tesla is no Apple, no Microsoft no Standard Oil. Valuations might make superficial people think that it , but it ain't
I explicitly posted their stated goal and you are resorting to extreme mental gymnastics to create a straw man. under 0.01% of all startups reach valuation of 10B less than 0.0001% of startups reach valuation of 100B