Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down

Post by bufferoverflow » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 6:24 AM UTC

thematt wrote: post #8

AlphaWeaver wrote: post #7

> 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. Not to understate the significance of Tesla losing Straubel, but…

Since January 2018: Jason Mendez, director of manufacturing engineering Will McColl, manager of equipment engineering Jon McNeill, president of global sales and services Eric Branderiz, chief accounting officer Susan Repo, corporate treasurer and vice president of finance Jim Keller, head of Autopilot hardware engineering Georg Ell, director of Western Europe operations Matthew Schwall, director of field performance…

Post by MegaButts » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 6:53 AM UTC

randomsearch wrote: post #22

Why do some many people hate Tesla and want them to fail? Do they also want SpaceX to fail? Elon can be an asshat sometimes, and he oversells and is over-optimistic. But even if the short sellers are right and Tesla will go bankrupt (which, btw, does not equal failure in many ways), why are so many people excited about that? Most tech giants of recent times have done things I would consider to have made the world a m…

Post by bsaul » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 7:05 AM UTC

MegaButts wrote: post #23

randomsearch wrote: post #22

Why do some many people hate Tesla and want them to fail? Do they also want SpaceX to fail? Elon can be an asshat sometimes, and he oversells and is over-optimistic. But even if the short sellers are right and Tesla will go bankrupt (which, btw, does not equal failure in many ways), why are so many people excited about that? Most tech giants of recent times have done things I would consider to have made the world a m…

Personally I dislike Tesla because I think Autopilot causes preventable deaths.

Post by jnwatson » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 7:15 AM UTC

MegaButts wrote: post #23

randomsearch wrote: post #22

Why do some many people hate Tesla and want them to fail? Do they also want SpaceX to fail? Elon can be an asshat sometimes, and he oversells and is over-optimistic. But even if the short sellers are right and Tesla will go bankrupt (which, btw, does not equal failure in many ways), why are so many people excited about that? Most tech giants of recent times have done things I would consider to have made the world a m…

Personally I dislike Tesla because I think Autopilot causes preventable deaths.

Post by MegaButts » Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 7:18 AM UTC

jnwatson wrote: post #27

MegaButts wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally I dislike Tesla because I think Autopilot causes preventable deaths.

Musk’s hubris is annoying, but how many lives did he save by not waiting until the autopilot was “ready”? It is probably in the dozens at this point.