Tesla loses program manager behind its most successful electric car

The heads of the Cybertruck and Model Y, both just left. BULLISH!!!

of course the stock will grow 10% today...

Actually, it's down on yesterday's close so far. But yeah, the stock rose quickly on yesterday's news that the CT head had bolted

Of course! The spin is, Elon is planning exceptional AI agent executives to work closely with him and run the company, because few humans want to deal with him at all. 🤣😂🤷‍♂️

They're not a car company so that's really just cutting deadweight. Bullish indeed!

Turn the backup camera on, they should be able to find him then.

All in on Optimus now. 1 million robots in home by end of 2026. 1 trillion Elon payout loading.

To be fair, losing a sycophant whose greatest professional skill is knowing how to kiss fElon’s ass *should* be a benefit to the company.

In all honesty losing a program manager is the least of their worries. Program managers are easily replaceable, and there’s no special talent behind them anyway. If they were brilliant, they wouldn’t be program managers.

Tesla or Elon or some of the board and shareholders will be brought up on charges for stock manipulation one day. Could be 10 years but eventually it will happen.

A bolted-on head sounds like a humanoid robot.

Yep, according to Elmo the car business is dead. It's either 100% AI & robots or go bust.  So might as well "gift" Elmo a cool $1 trillion and let all people responsible for the cars go.

In this case the Program Manager was probably ensuring that things at least pointed in the right direction with some structure and plan… of all things Tesla likely needs, it’s more of this and less everything else.

You clearly did not read the article, one of the PM is pretty gifted. That aside, the joke is of course the PM doesn’t have a say over Elon and that’s the main reason is flopped, not because the PM wasn’t doing their job well enough. It’s more like how much shit are they going to take. If only they had a marketing dept to help them recreate their image…

The company has to see a 45% increase in market cap and sell an additional 13M vehicles for Musk to get his first of 12 payments in the form of Tesla stock. Tesla has sold 7.2M units so far, but sales have declined since their 1.8M peak in 2023. Assuming an average of 1.5M units per year (likely generous given declines in Europe, China, etc) it will take 8.5 years for Musk to get his first payout. This package seems like a moonshot designed to get him off the campaign trail and back to work in his corner office. Now that he's dismantled all the regulatory agencies that were about to prosecute him, he can focus on what he does best: Wanking it to fake girls made by his pet AI.

The cybertruck is understandable, but to slow walk the model y already seems crazy, if you really want to concentrate just on the robot and taxi at least wait until they are actually finished and on the streets making money. It seems premature to gut the model Y stuff already when it is still making money.

Oddly enough, Tesla’s head of the Optimus program [left this June](https://electrek.co/2025/06/06/tesla-head-optimus-humanoid-robot-leaves-trillion-product/). Tragic that he did not want to stick around to see the 1 billion sentient robot army next year.

So, $1T to retain the head grifter, but nada to retain the talent.... What a company.

There's no indication to date of illegal insider trading, and making outlandish projections and promises isn't illegal. More likely, financial fraud in Tesla accounting. >“[I’m fucked](https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says-he-might-get-thrown-in-jail-if-trump-doesnt-win-2000508695). If he loses, I’m fucked,” Musk said as they both laughed. “How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be? Do you think? Will I see my children? I don’t know.”

Gee, both Model Y and Cybertruck heads. I hope they got their $100,000,000,000 pay package before they left…

Bank of America just reported 2/3 of American households are living month-to-month, 1 paycheck away from not paying bills. So 1 million households are about to buy Optimus? Does that mean Elon expects to price it under $20? /s

Up 10% because the heads of those departments will be replaced by Optimus robots, Beta version. What could go wrong? Worse comes to worse, Elon will rename “Optimus” to “Optimus (Supervised)”.

And will have a safety person on hair trigger following each one around

He needed to be replaced with a H1B anyway.

Ok well time will tell.

Or rename it to another fucking alphabet, maybe "Z" this time?