The Head of the Cybertruck Program Quit Tesla. Model Y Leader Left Hours Later

The list of key people that left Tesla in the past 24 months is veeeery long.

Quite strange for a company that's on the brink of becoming by far the most important on earth (and Mars !). Oh, for those thinking it's because it's not longer a car company but an AI / Robot company, mind you the head of Optimus program and head of Software also left this year.

Same vibes as when Karpathy left in 2022, when Tesla was supposedly on the verge of attaining Full Self Driving. Well, fast forward 3 years, they are still on the verge...

Is this article a joke? The first linked person in the article https://www.linkedin.com/posts/siddhantawasthi_i-recently-ma... - 8 years of post college experience as a PROGRAM MANAGER. For those not in tech this is akin to project manager, or someone that asks for status updates and communicates estimates and effort. Definitely not someone super technical or Director+ level.

"If we assume for a moment that Tesla’s recent sales declines are entirely due to faulty management, specifically caused by people with the job title “program manager,” then Tesla is well in its way to massive improvements. " - This style of writing is hard to parse and dumb.

"Awasthi notes in his post that his signature accomplishments at Tesla occurred “all before hitting 30.” Indeed, it appears that in 2017, when he was 23, he was a student at the University of Cincinnati working on a school project related to the Musk-led “Hyperloop” concept. "

I mean he's most likely late 20's early 30's at the moment so not sure what this is getting at.

Tesla has all of the smells of a company about to implode

Two PMs left a company with 125,665 employees. Yes, they are very important, but this happens every day at companies all around the world. Could be burnout, they are rich, got better offers, anything really.

People are so desperate for Tesla to fail they will latch onto anything.

Model 3/Y can immediately get better with a few tweaks that won't cost Tesla a lot:

1. Enable Android Auto/CarPlay. This literally requires no additional hardware.

2. V2G (vehicle-to-grid) support. Again, zero car-side hardware changes, just software updates to allow the reverse current flow.

3. Vehicle-to-load and 120V outlets. This requires just some cheap hardware changes.

4. Steering wheel stalks and ultrasonic parking sensors. FFS.

5. Add a driver-side display (instead of a useless passenger mid-seat screen). This is the only expensive change.

If they do this, their cars can suddenly become so much more attractive.

I'll keep saying this until someone at Tesla sees it: They could clean up if they designed a hybrid Cybertruck II that was a bit more conventional looking. Build something cutting edge but actually useful, keep some of the edginess but tone it down just enough to bring in more sales.

The giant single wiper on the current Cybertruck is horrible, btw. Everything about that thing is horrible, actually.

I flagged this because even though I'm no Musk fan a couple of program managers who worked on these cars are not the "heads" of the programs nor likely very close to that.

Elo gets a trillion dollar performance based pay package, and lo two fairly significant insiders fade, too high up to just vanish, but clearly not on "the team" the timing is highly sugestive of bet's placed, and lost

Maybe he got his GC and now doesn’t want to work 996 anymore because he has lots of vested TSLA gains (wild assumption on my end)