With its sales Cliff And The benefits disappearing in a thin airTHE Wall Street Journal reported On Wednesday, Tesla quietly started looking for a replacement for CEO Elon Musk.
According to anonymous sources of the newspaper familiar with the discussions, the members of the board of directors contacted several management firms to find the next CEO of the company.
But it didn't take long for an exasque Musk to cry.
“It is an extremely bad violation of ethics that the (Wsj) would publish a deliberately false article and would not include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors, “he online rage.
The chairman of the company's board of directors, Robyn Denholm, also postponed reports from the newspaper, affirmation This “Musk and the Board of Directors are very confident in its ability to continue to execute on the exciting growth plan to come”.
But given the extremely biased nature of the Tesla board of directors, which criticisms have accused of being bordered by musk “sycophants“It is difficult to read exactly what type of discussion really took place.
Are the members of the company's board of directors, who have historically been extremely loyal to Musk and his vision, really went behind his back to align a successor?
And if they did it, Musk would have been aware of these efforts, in particular given the way in which it was focused on laser to avoid the government with the help of its so -called ministry of government efficiency – absenteeism and the exact division that the council would have forced the hand of the council, if we WsjAre sources to believe?
Whatever the legitimacy of WsjThe sources of the company – and we must emphasize that the newspaper reports of the newspaper are among the most reliable in the world, so we are doubtful to the affirmation that history is completely false – musk and the extremely lively reaction of the board of directors to the report paint an image of a company in chaos.
Investors have long accused musk of having abandoned the automaker. Her Scandalous public behavior And drug consumption admitted dragged Tesla's brand in the mud, trigger. Musk's public approval, which before his turn in hard right politics, was extraordinarily high, A gutter.
All this negative baggage is now making a clear number, Tesla pointing that her net income had Fallen by an amazing 71% In the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year.
The recovery of the loss of the lost brand could soon be difficult, especially if the double musk to tear the federal government. In a interview with Axios this weekThe CEO admitted that Doge was “not as effective as I wish”, referring to the possibility that remains in the pseudo-departure until 2028.
