8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (5)
#10712886 at 2020-09-19 22:13:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13710: Injure One Hair On His Head & We Will You What Burn It Down Means Edition
Amazon names first recipients of its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund
PUBLISHED THU, SEP 17 202010:24 AM EDT
UPDATED THU, SEP 17 202011:29 AM EDT
Amazon's $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund is investing in five start-ups.
* Redwood Materials, the recycling start-up founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel
* CarbonCure Technologies, which has developed a technology to consume carbon dioxide in fresh concrete during production
* Pachama a climate technology start-up
* Turntide Technologies a smart motor start-up
* Rivian, an electric van start-up Amazon has invested in previously. Amazon also uses Rivian's electric vans across a portion of its delivery fleet
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/17/amazon-climate-pledge-fund-recipients-named.html
#8621063 at 2020-03-30 07:59:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General: #11038 All Eyez on 8kun edition
Qmap said JB was John Brennan on Crumb 529, but I believe it was JB Straubel. I missed this originally
#7299459 at 2019-08-01 22:14:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9339: WINNING Edition
Tesla CTO sold $3.45m in shares-July 29
Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down
Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel is stepping down from his day-to-day role as an executive at the automaker, CEO Elon Musk announced during a conference call with analysts Wednesday.
Drew Baglino, vice president of technology, will take over his duties, Musk said. Straubel will stay on in a senior advisor role.
"I want to thank JB for his fundamental role in creating and building Tesla," Musk said during the call. "If we hadn't had lunch in 2003, Tesla wouldn't exist, basically," Musk added.
Straubel described his time at Tesla as an adventurous 16 years.
"I'm not disappearing, and I just wanted to make sure that people understand that this was not some, you know, lack of confidence in the company or the team or anything like that," Straubel said, adding that he loves the company.
Straubel's role at Tesla cannot be understated. The executive was responsible for some of the company's most important technology, notably around batteries. His understated yet steady presence along with his technological acumen gave provided stability even when its CEO became embroiled in controversy.
His departure is the latest in a long string of high-profile executives to leave Tesla in the past year, most recently Steve McManus, a vice president in charge of engineering for car interiors and exteriors at Tesla, who joined Apple. Two other former Tesla executives, Michael Schwekutsch, and chief engineer Doug Field, have also left to join Apple.
Straubel is involved in another company called Redwood Materials, which emerged in 2017. An SEC filing in 2017 a $2 million initial investment in the Redwood City, Calif.-based company that describes itself at its site as focused on "advanced technology and process development for materials recycling, remanufacturing, and reuse."
The filing lists Straubel and Andrew Stevenson, the former head of special projects at Tesla, as executive officers. Stevenson is now CFO at Redwood Materials.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/tesla-co-founder-and-cto-JB-Straubel-stepping-down/
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1494727&tc=2&b=2
#7174513 at 2019-07-25 02:48:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9179: Anons own droneanon Rusty makes it big! Edition
Elon Musk's Right Hand Man And Tesla Co-Founder, JB Straubel, Unexpectedly Calls It Quits
The second most crucial employee at Tesla, aside from Elon Musk of course, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer J.B. Straubel, has finally had enough and has decided to transition out of his CTO role and shift to a far more informal, "advisory" - which is just C-suite talk for i will quit, but in a few months - position in the company.
Straubel had been by Musk's side for over a decade and was widely seen as the driving force behind much of the actual engineering and design work that took place at Tesla. This is what Straubel said:
"I am not disappearing. I just want to make sure people understand its not some lack of confidence in the company or the team or anything like that. I love the team and I love the company and I always will. Drew (Baglino) and I have worked closely together for many many years and I have total confidence in Drew. I am not going anywhere if there's anything I need to do that is helpful to drew or the whole team."
Of the dozens of employees who have moved on from Tesla over the last couple of years, Straubel's departure may sting investors and supporters of the company almost as much as if Musk himself had left.
The news was disclosed on the company's disastrous Q2 conference call on Wednesday as Elon Musk trembled and stuttered his way through nervous conversation and laughter with Straubel after announcing the move. This announcement came after the company's thirty-something CFO failed to convince investors that the company had put forth a "strong" quarter, by posting a GAAP net loss of over $400 million in a quarter in which the company sold the most cars on record (suggesting that something is either very broken with Tesla margins, or this company just can't scale).
But the cherry on top is that instead of officially announcing this material departure in the surprisingly brief, 2-page investor letter which still detailed an especially ugly quarter for Tesla, (we detailed Tesla's Q2 in this report), Musk waited until the very end of the non Q&A section of the conference call; it's almost as if key man departures - CFO, CTO, whatever - are an afterhought to Musk. That, or just so many employees have quit in the past 2 years that Musk no longer pays attention. Investors did, however, and promptly slammed the stock after first puking following the dismal quarter.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-24/elon-musks-right-hand-man-and-tesla-co-founder-JB-Straubel-unexpectedly-calls-it-0
#6685360 at 2019-06-06 15:02:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8549: Eternally Grateful Edition
Tesla Director Antonio Gracias Has Now Dumped Almost All Of His Personal Stock
Despite no real formal updated delivery guidance for Q2 and yesterday's conveniently leaked article to electrek claiming "new record 'sales numbers'", Tesla board member and long time friend of Elon Musk, Antonio Gracias, hasn't stopped spraying the open market with his personal stock holdings.
A Form 4 filed on 6/5/2019 shows that Gracias again blew out stock between $177.70 and $185.70 after exercising options. As some noted, this Form 4 says that Gracias now has just 466 shares left personally, and that his remaining shares are held in funds.
As you can see from the below chart, Gracias' sale follows a long line of insider selling from Tesla executives since late last year.
Gracias and other long-time top Musk lieutenant, JB Straubel, have been selling, collectively, over $50 million in stock since last November. Reminder, we wrote days ago that Straubel's office presence at Tesla was reported to be "scarce".
Others noted that the pace that Gracias is selling at would leave his funds with no stock left to sell by "early 2020".
Elon's BFF (and Tesla Director) Gracias continues to unload his $TSLA stock on schedule. At this rate his fund will be out completely in early-2020.
The board of directors and the company itself can do everything they want to try to and posture to make it look as though everything is fine at the company, but the stock sales from insiders at Tesla continue to allude to a different story.
And who are the bagholders for these sales? Despite retail traders on Robinhood religiously buying the dip….there was one other person who recently agreed to buy stock as part of the company's recent financing- See Cap#4
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-06/tesla-director-antonio-gracias-has-now-dumped-almost-all-his-personal-stock
https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1318605.htm