Yesterday, stories from Forbes and CNBC stated that Musk had fired Omead Afshar, who previously led operations in North America and Europe and was an in depth confidant of Musk’s. (Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal additionally reported that Afshar left the corporate, however didn’t say he was fired.) The firing follows a significant stoop in gross sales for Tesla’s automotive enterprise – last quarter, income for that group fell 20 % year-over-year.
Afshar first joined Tesla in 2017, the place he began as a mission supervisor within the workplace of the CEO, in response to his LinkedIn. In 2022, he was reportedly investigated internally for a glass buy for a secret mission.
Tesla additionally not too long ago misplaced Milan Kovac, the VP who headed up the Optimus humanoid robotics group. Kovac said that he left as a result of he wanted to spend extra time together with his household overseas. Musk thanked Kovac in a reply.
Electrek reported Friday morning that Tesla had employed Henry Kuang, who, in a now-inaccessible LinkedIn profile, listed his title at GM’s Cruise as “Senior Director / Head of Autonomy” and his title at Tesla as “Director, AI / Deep Studying for Autonomous Driving.” Nevertheless, in an replace, Electrek stated that “Tesla denied hiring Kuang for the position listed in his LinkedIn profile.”
Correction, June twenty seventh: To Electrek, Tesla denied hiring Henry Kuang.