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Originally Posted by WarpedOne  I repeat: Martin created the company. He created it's image and became the face of the company. The fact he got fired over night without further notice I can only decode as:
What Martin was talking about and the image he represented in public no longer identifies with Tesla Motors and the future it wants to pursue. We are not what he talked about any more. He became an obstacle to our future steps.
And this bothers me very much. |
I totally agree with this. But I also see another possibility.
Martin was Tesla Motors and Tesla Motors / Martin Eberhard have been a media darling for quite some time. They are rightly credited with many things. Doing what many car manufactures would have said couldn’t be done, by creating a beautiful and desirable electric car in a few years. Forcing GM to do something never before seen in a major car manufacturer, emulating Tesla Motors by developing an electric car in a very open fashion with regular updates provided to Internet blogs.
The media spotlight has been focused on Martin for quite a while and there are some people that don’t handle it too well if they don’t get the credit that they feel they paid for. In many of the Elon Musk interviews I read, he always seemed to try to point out his significant role in the development process. This same tone is apparent in some of his justification of things that happened at Paypal and it would appear that some of the original founders there were marginalized also.
This is just an opinion and I guess each person has there own, but when X-CEOsWife alluded to egos as a possible problem it just strengthened my opinion.
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