8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (6)
#16151615 at 2022-04-25 19:22:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20429: TRUMP HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT OVER SUBPOENAS IN N.Y. Edition
Elon Musk ruthlessly cleaned house of any Tesla workers who disagreed or got in his way, a new book says
Grace Kay and Tim Levin
Aug 3, 2021, 1:23 PM
Good news anons, he won't have a problem firing people, kek
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied allegations in the past that he has a propensity for rage firing people, but a new book tells a different story.
"Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century," by The Wall Street Journal's Tim Higgins details numerous instances when the CEO appeared to fire employees and contractors out of sheer anger.
The book, released on Tuesday, reveals that Musk developed an atmosphere of fear at Tesla - an environment where the billionaire had a reputation for exploding at top executives and employees on the assembly line alike.
In 2006, ahead of Tesla's first Roadster reveal party, Musk had his head of marketing Jessica Switzer, as well as a public relations firm, ousted because he was unhappy with Switzer's decision to spend money on marketing. Higgins said Musk thought his name alone would be enough to incite interest in the vehicle.
Shortly after the executive's departure, Musk threatened to fire another PR which was later hired to take on the Roadster reveal, citing his anger over a New York Times story on Tesla that did not mention Musk.
"I was incredibly insulted and embarrassed by the NY Times article," Musk emailed the firm. "If anything like this happens again, please consider [your] relationship with Tesla to end immediately upon publication of such a piece."
Mark Goldberg, a Morgan Stanley banker that helped take Tesla public in 2010, told Higgins that Musk repeatedly threatened to fire bankers from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs before Tesla's IPO launch in 2010.
"I don't have time for this," Elon Musk reportedly yelled during an episode. "I've got to launch the f-- rocket!"
Musk's fury caused several executives to leave the company, Higgins said. Peter Rawlinson, the executive leading the development of the Model S, left Tesla after a series of spats with Musk. Musk put pressure on CFO Deepak Ahuja and Rawlinson's key deputy Nick Sampson to bring Rawlinson back to the company. When they couldn't, Musk fired Sampson in a fit.
Later, Tesla found itself without the heads of its manufacturing department ahead of the Tesla Model 3 launch due to Musk's ire. The CEO went into a rage during a factory visit over issues with the Model X's window. When a worker on the assembly line proposed a solution, Musk lit into the worker's manager.
"This is totally unacceptable that you had a person working in your factory that knows the solution and you don't even know that," Musk reportedly said before firing the head of the factory….
Portnoy says Business Insider is a gossip rag, that report stories to smear people, I think it's true.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-elon-musk-ruthlessly-fired-anyone-who-disagreed-spacex-report-2021-8
#6789353 at 2019-06-19 14:29:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8684: Rally Day + 1: The Gloves Are Off Edition
Tesla loses another exec: HR vice president and head of diversity Felicia Mayo
Tesla vice president of HR and head of diversity, Felicia Mayo, has departed the company. Mayo, who worked at Tesla for almost two years, is one of a few black women to rise to executive ranks in Silicon Valley.
Tesla vice president of human resources and head of diversity Felicia Mayo has left the company.
A company spokesperson told CNBC, "We'll miss Felicia and would like to thank her for her hard work over the last two years and wish her all the best in the future. We have a talented HR team in place that will continue to report into our VP of People & Places and will remain focused on advancing our mission and making Tesla a great place to work."
Tesla is known as a mission-driven and hard-driving workplace with significant pressure to hit ambitious goals and deadlines meted out by CEO Elon Musk. Among other things, these conditions have led to a high level of churn among Tesla executives, in recent years.
Mayo is one of a few black women leaders to break the glass ceiling and rise to executive ranks in a large, Silicon Valley tech firm. Less than 0.5% of Silicon Valley tech leadership positions are held by black women, according to 2018 statistics from the Kapor Center.
She previously served as vice president of global talent acquisition and diversity at Juniper Networks, then held the role of VP of Human Resources at Tesla for less than two years. She reported to Tesla's vice president of people and places, Kevin Kassekert, and CEO Elon Musk.
During her tenure, Tesla expanded its operations internationally, began manufacturing its Model 3 electric sedan in high volumes, and implemented controversial strategies ranging from store closures and other restructuring efforts, to giving employees a discount on Tesla vehicles, if they agreed to use and give feedback on beta versions of the company's Full Self Driving software.
Mayo's departure follows the resignation of other Tesla executives in the last year, including:
Tesla's former chief people officer, Gaby
Toledano
General Counsel, Todd Maron
VP of Legal, Phil Rothenberg
CFO Deepak Ahuja (who announced his
retirement at the end of a Tesla earnings call
in January this year)
VP of Engineering, Michael Schwekutsch
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/tesla-loses-felicia-mayo-human-resources-vp-and-head-of-diversity.html
#5952153 at 2019-03-28 23:34:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7612: HONOR & RESPECT Edition
Tesla loses its head of growth and referral program
Tesla's head of growth and the executive behind the automaker's owner referral program has left the company this week, according to sources talking to Electrek.
We reported on Praveen Arichandran back in 2016 when Tesla hired him from Facebook in order to build a growth team for the company.
Arichandran holds degrees in economics and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he started his career at AMD and after a stint at BMO, he joined Facebook in 2011 and held several roles in the company's growth team until joining Tesla in January 2016. At just 25 years old, he was Tesla's youngest executive at the time.
At Tesla, he was Director of Growth Programs, which included overseeing the owner referral program, which was recently briefly canceled before being launched again earlier this month.
The referral program was extremely successful in generating sales for Tesla, but it got a bit out of control when Model 3 was added to the program. Tesla ended up having to give away over 80 new Roadsters for free and give significant discounts on many more new supercars.
CEO Elon Musk cited high costs when shutting down the program earlier this month and the team relaunched it with much more reasonable prizes just a week ago.
Sources familiar with the matter told Electrek that Arichandran quit Tesla this week. He has a new job lined up to be announced shortly.
He is the latest in a series of Tesla executives to leave lately, like VP of Engineering in charge of powertrains Michael Schwekutsch and CFO Deepak Ahuja, among dozens more over the last year.
To be fair, the turnover rate is fairly high in Silicon Valley and even more so in the sectors that Tesla operates in.
Tesla has yet to respond to a request for comment and Arichandran has declined to comment until his position at the new company is announced.
https://electrek.co/2019/03/28/tesla-losses-head-of-growth-referral-program/amp/
#5232558 at 2019-02-18 01:06:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6686: Graphics Show Q Posts Then POTUS Tweets Edition
>>5232503
These are the key names who have left Tesla or have announced their departure in 2018 or so far in 2019, as well as when they left and where they went next (according to their LinkedIn profile or company announcements):
January - Jason Mendez, director of manufacturing engineering: LinkedIn profile does not list next position
January - Will McColl, manager of equipment engineering: founded WaveForm Design
February - Jon McNeill, president of global sales and services: became COO of Lyft
March - Eric Branderiz, chief accounting officer: became CFO of Enphase Energy
March - Susan Repo, corporate treasurer and vice president of finance: became CFO of Topia (she left Topia in June, according to her LinkedIn page)
April - Jim Keller, head of Autopilot hardware engineering: became head of silicon engineering at Intel
April - Georg Ell, director of Western Europe operations: became CEO of Smoothwall
May - Matthew Schwall, director of field performance engineering: became heady of field safety at Waymo
July - Ganesh Srivats, vice president overseeing retail, delivery, and marketing: became CEO of Moda Operandi
September - Sarah O'Brien, vice president of communications: became VP of executive communications at Facebook
September - Gabrielle Toledano, chief people officer: became executive in residence at Comcast Ventures
September - Dave Morton, chief accounting officer: became CFO of Anaplan
September - Liam O'Connor, vice president of global supply management: LinkedIn profile does not list next position
September - Antoin Abou-Haydar, senior director of production and quality: became vice president of global quality for Byton
October - Justin McAnear, vice president of worldwide finance and operations: became CFO of 10X Genomics
November - Phil Rothenberg, vice president in the legal department: became general counsel of Sonder
November - Jeff Jones, head of global security: LinkedIn profile does not list next position
November - Dan Kim, senior director of global sales, marketing, and delivery: became director of Airbnb Plus at Airbnb
December - Aaron Chew, director of investor relations: LinkedIn profile does not list next position
January 2019 - Todd Maron, general counsel: LinkedIn profile does not list next position
January 2019 - Charles Mwangi, senior director of engineering: LinkedIn profile says he is working at an unamed startup
February 2019 - Cindy Nicola, vice president of global recruiting: LinkedIn profile does not list next position
2019 - Deepak Ahuja, CFO: Ahuja said he is retiring once he leaves Tesla
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-executive-departures-list-2018-9
#4975895 at 2019-01-31 15:22:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6353: Being Built! Edition
Tesla
306.16-2.61 (-0.85%)
Volume 4,602,793
Avg. Volume 7,252,348
Chart looks like it is being pumped for a dump.
After Tesla reported $139 million profit for the fourth quarter of 2018, generating a record $7.2 billion in revenue, its Founder and CEO Elon Musk dropped a bomb, saying the company's Indian-origin Chief Financial Officer Deepak Ahuja will be retiring.
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?tc=2
https://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/Business/20190131/3503554.html
#2994884 at 2018-09-12 21:15:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3789: Inflicting Max Pain
Justin McAnear, VP of Worldwide Finance at Tesla, leaving
(from Bloomberg)
"Another high-ranking finance executive at Tesla Inc. is leaving the company, according to people familiar with the matter.
Justin McAnear, vice president of worldwide finance and operation, is parting ways with the electric-car maker, said the people, who requested anonymity because the information hadn't been made public. McAnear confirmed his last day at Tesla will be Oct. 7 in a statement obtained by CNBC.
Tesla representatives didn't respond to requests for comment on McAnear, who's one of the highest-ranking executives under Chief Financial Officer Deepak Ahuja. The company's finance team has been hit particularly hard amid a broader exodus of senior executives this year. Chief Accounting Officer Dave Morton tendered his resignation last week after less than a month, and his predecessor in that role left in March. Susan Repo, who had been corporate treasurer and vice president of finance, also left that month.
Tesla shares briefly pared gains on the news before rebounding to close up 4 percent to $290.54. The stock is down 6.7 percent this year."