<story><title>Tesla&apos;s Finance Team Is Losing Another Top Executive</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-12/tesla-s-finance-team-is-said-to-be-losing-another-top-executive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scotchio</author><text>Like a week or 2 ago saw a bunch of beautiful headlines like this:&lt;p&gt;- Tesla&amp;#x27;s stock is getting crushed after TWO EXECUTIVES JUMP SHIP and CEO Elon Musk smokes weed [1]&lt;p&gt;- Tesla ERUPTS IN CHAOS After Senior Execs Leave, Musk Tokes Up [2]&lt;p&gt;Only to read internally it was a bit more tame than &amp;quot;JUMPING SHIP!!!!!&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;As many of you know, Tesla’s Chief People Officer Gaby Toledano has been on leave for a few months to spend more time with her family and has decided to continue doing so for personal reasons. She’s been amazing and I’m very grateful for everything she’s done for Tesla.&amp;quot; [3]&lt;p&gt;So the executive was on LOA for multiple months beforehand? Seems really disingenuous to craft headlines like that. Does anyone have more detail?&lt;p&gt;But then again and to be fair, anything from Tesla would do serious controlled messaging.&lt;p&gt;Point is, with all Tesla news, I&amp;#x27;m not even sure what to believe anymore. I see headline like this, and my first thought is &amp;quot;Is this even true?&amp;quot;. Maybe Tesla is really as in trouble as these headlines lead on, maybe they are not. Maybe Elon has &amp;quot;gone mad&amp;quot; and tanking the stock to go private. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just trendy and fun to write negative news against Tesla&amp;#x27;s stock valuation right now. Who knows what&amp;#x27;s actually happening.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s all just a bit too much reading in between the lines anymore... Just SHOW ME THE NUMBERS next earnings report and I&amp;#x27;ll decide for myself.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nordic.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;tesla-stock-down-musk-filmed-smoking-pot-executives-leave-2018-9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nordic.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;tesla-stock-down-musk-fil...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2018-09-07&amp;#x2F;tesla-chief-accounting-officer-leaves-citing-level-of-scrutiny&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2018-09-07&amp;#x2F;tesla-chi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;en_GB&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;company-update&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;en_GB&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;company-update&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Who knows what&amp;#x27;s actually happening.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s actually happening is executives are leaving. Many more of them than is normal in such a short time. That&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s actually happening.&lt;p&gt;Why that&amp;#x27;s happening is certainly open for debate, but there are no answers to &amp;quot;why&amp;quot; that are good. The only reason that wouldn&amp;#x27;t suck is that it&amp;#x27;s just a coincidence that they don&amp;#x27;t want to be there. But keep in mind, one of the finance people was new to the company and quit. To me that says they walked in, saw what was happening and said &amp;quot;yeah, sorry, no.&amp;quot; But that&amp;#x27;s speculation on my part. We should stick to the facts - an unusual number of executives have been leaving the company in a short time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla&apos;s Finance Team Is Losing Another Top Executive</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-12/tesla-s-finance-team-is-said-to-be-losing-another-top-executive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scotchio</author><text>Like a week or 2 ago saw a bunch of beautiful headlines like this:&lt;p&gt;- Tesla&amp;#x27;s stock is getting crushed after TWO EXECUTIVES JUMP SHIP and CEO Elon Musk smokes weed [1]&lt;p&gt;- Tesla ERUPTS IN CHAOS After Senior Execs Leave, Musk Tokes Up [2]&lt;p&gt;Only to read internally it was a bit more tame than &amp;quot;JUMPING SHIP!!!!!&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;As many of you know, Tesla’s Chief People Officer Gaby Toledano has been on leave for a few months to spend more time with her family and has decided to continue doing so for personal reasons. She’s been amazing and I’m very grateful for everything she’s done for Tesla.&amp;quot; [3]&lt;p&gt;So the executive was on LOA for multiple months beforehand? Seems really disingenuous to craft headlines like that. Does anyone have more detail?&lt;p&gt;But then again and to be fair, anything from Tesla would do serious controlled messaging.&lt;p&gt;Point is, with all Tesla news, I&amp;#x27;m not even sure what to believe anymore. I see headline like this, and my first thought is &amp;quot;Is this even true?&amp;quot;. Maybe Tesla is really as in trouble as these headlines lead on, maybe they are not. Maybe Elon has &amp;quot;gone mad&amp;quot; and tanking the stock to go private. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just trendy and fun to write negative news against Tesla&amp;#x27;s stock valuation right now. Who knows what&amp;#x27;s actually happening.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s all just a bit too much reading in between the lines anymore... Just SHOW ME THE NUMBERS next earnings report and I&amp;#x27;ll decide for myself.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nordic.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;tesla-stock-down-musk-filmed-smoking-pot-executives-leave-2018-9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nordic.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;tesla-stock-down-musk-fil...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2018-09-07&amp;#x2F;tesla-chief-accounting-officer-leaves-citing-level-of-scrutiny&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2018-09-07&amp;#x2F;tesla-chi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;en_GB&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;company-update&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;en_GB&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;company-update&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dforrestwilson</author><text>Almost every executive tasked with showing you the financial numbers is leaving or has left what should be one of the hottest&amp;#x2F;sexiest startups of our time. Many of them have left with stock options still on the table.&lt;p&gt;That should say more than the numbers do by themselves.</text></comment>