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Inside David Tepper's playbook for making the Panthers more competitive

PITTSBURGH — Eleven months after David Tepper paid $2.275 billion for the Carolina Panthers, he told a group of Charlotte business and civic leaders that the organization is no longer afraid to try new things or make the occasional mistake in pursuit of innovation and excellence.

Tepper made those observations on Wednesday afternoon while sitting in an auditorium at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, a 315,000-square-foot, $201 million building that opened last year.

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Asked about his immediate goals as Panthers owner, Tepper said he wants to pursue “every edge” to be competitive on and off the field.

“It can be analytics, it can be just the way you’re thinking, it’s process management, it’s not being afraid to make mistakes,” he said. “There was probably a culture afraid to make mistakes there (under the previous owner). Sometimes you have to make a mistake to do great things — you can’t be afraid of making mistakes.”

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