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☆ Omead Afshar, a longtime Elon Musk loyalist, takes the wheel at Tesla
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Grace Kay | Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

As Musk increasingly turns his attention to politics, Afshar is set to help shepherd Tesla through this volatility. AdvertisementOver the seven years he has spent working for Musk, Afshar has emerged as one of the billionaire's most loyal lieutenants, driven and singularly focused on his goals. Years before Tesla, Afshar studied biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and worked as a ski instructor. At Tesla and other Musk companies, he said, "the mission is good, and what we're trying to do is right." AdvertisementThe four current and former colleagues said Afshar became lower profile at Tesla in 2022 but continued to work closely with Musk.

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Elon Musk and Grimes' custody battle in Texas was resolved in August, nearly a year after the Tesla CEO filed a lawsuit against the musician in the state. Here's a timeline of the custody battle, including when the suits were filed, and the accusations Musk and Grimes have made against each other in court. In August 2023, Grimes and Musk traveled to Tokyo together, but Musk said in his petition that their relationship broke down shortly after. September 7, 2023: Musk sues GrimesMusk sued Grimes in Texas in early September to "establish the parent-child relationship" with their three kids. November 28, 2023: Musk voices security concernsMusk asked a Texas judge to restrict access to his custody battle for his kids' safety.

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☆ Elon Musk's Neuralink is hiring technicians to ramp up manufacturing
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Grace Kay | Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementNeuralink, Elon Musk's neurotechnology company, is hiring for multiple manufacturing roles. Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, is looking to hire manufacturing technicians and microfabrication specialists. Two manufacturing technicians work at the company, based on public LinkedIn profiles, with those employees joining in 2021 and February 2024. A Neuralink recruiter said the company is hiring manufacturing technicians to "boost production." Neuralink also appears to be hiring for manufacturing roles for its surgical robot, a job listing shows.

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☆ Elon Musk and Grimes have ended their custody dispute in Texas
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AdvertisementThe Travis County clerk's office told BI Elon Musk and Grimes have ended their custody dispute. Musk sued Grimes in the Texas court last year, and Grimes countersued in San Francisco. Elon Musk and Grimes' legal dispute in Texas over their three children has been resolved. Related VideoRepresentatives for Musk and Grimes did not respond to a request for comment. Musk first filed the custody lawsuit against Grimes in September 2023.

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☆ Jeff Bezos is selling one of his private jets for $39 million after upgrading to the newest Gulfstream G700
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Taylor Rains | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementJeff Bezos' Gulfstream G650ER private jet is for sale for about $39 million. A Gulfstream G650ER, registered N271DV, is listed for about $39 million on the aviation marketplace Controller. Washington state records from 2004, when the firm was created, show that Bezos owns the company. Data from the aircraft-tracking website JetSpy shows that the listed private plane is one of four owned by Bezos. Inside a Gulfstream G650ER like the one Bezos owns.

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☆ Elon Musk is looking for trillions in government waste, and defense is a massive potential target
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-16 | by ( Jake Epstein | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk to help spearhead cuts to government spending, and the defense sector could be a prime target. But Musk's past comments hint at one area he could target: defense contracts. Musk built SpaceX's business model around fixed-price contracts. Musk's new initiative could recommend exactly this: a move away from cost-plus contracts toward fixed-price contracts. An aerial view of the Pentagon AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, FileMusk's new initiative may target other areas of Pentagon spending, as well.

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☆ At Tesla, some are celebrating stock gains — others worry Elon will lose focus
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-14 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tesla employees are contending with a CEO whose list of commitments grows by the day. Most celebrated the company's surging stock price — it's up nearly 33% year to date — as Tesla stock makes up a significant share of most workers' compensation. Musk's growing list of commitmentsIn the runup to the election, Tesla CEO Elon Musk threw his money and influence behind Donald Trump. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 — Ashok Elluswamy (@aelluswamy) November 6, 2024Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk's brother and a Tesla board member, also appeared to celebrate the win. "On one hand, you want to celebrate the fact that the stock is up an insane amount," the employee said.

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Business Insider secured access to an internal Tesla pay database, covering nearly 100,000 employees as of December 2021. Correspondent Grace Kay explains why employees working for Elon Musk's company might accept salaries lower than what they could earn at other top tech corporations or major car manufacturers. This video was shot in October 2024.

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☆ Internal Tesla salary database shows Elon Musk's strategy: Lower salaries, bigger stock grants
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Grace Kay | Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Business Insider secured access to an internal Tesla pay database, covering nearly 100,000 employees as of December 2021. Tesla offers lower base salaries than its tech and automotive peers but offers substantial stock grants. Nine current and former people in engineering and sales said that Tesla's stock grants make it easier to accept lower base salaries. To get a sense of which employees were more likely to take home large grants, BI broke up stock grants based on job category. So far, stock grants have "proven to be better than cash in your pocket."

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☆ Elon Musk's private jet has landed in Florida following report he'll be watching election results with Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Madeline Berg | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump megadonor Elon Musk's private jet has landed in Florida. AdvertisementElon Musk's private jet has landed in Florida, where the billionaire will reportedly watch the election results roll in with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. After flying from Austin to Cameron County, Texas — where SpaceX is located and Musk said he voted — earlier this afternoon, Musk's private jet landed in West Palm Beach, according to jet-tracking service Jetspy. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that Musk, a Trump megadonor, was to spend election night with Trump, citing three sources with knowledge of Musk's schedule. Sweeney told Business Insider that Musk's jets were easily identifiable because Musk's jet continued broadcasting its call sign.

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☆ Inside 'Project Rodeo,' the Tesla effort pushing the limits of self-driving technology
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-31 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Test drivers on Project Rodeo say they push the company's self-driving software to its limit. Business Insider spoke with nine current and former Project Rodeo test drivers and three Autopilot engineers in states including California, Texas, and Florida. Test drivers on Project Rodeo say they push the company's self-driving software to its limit. Tesla did not respond to a detailed list of questions about Project Rodeo and its self-driving technology. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket/GettyTwo years later, test drivers were asked to train the system near pedestrians, test drivers said.

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☆ Flight logs show Elon Musk's private jets are busy hitting swing states as he campaigns for Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Grace Kay | Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk's private planes made eight flights to Pennsylvania this past week, flight logs show. Elon Musk's private planes took eight flights to and from Pennsylvania over the past week as the billionaire rallied voters. Elon Musk's private jet in Harrisburg on October 19. In the weeks leading up to Musk's Pennsylvania rallies, SpaceX launched its fifth Starship test flight, successfully catching the spacecraft's Super Heavy booster for the first time. While Musk has been campaigning for Trump, Tesla has been preparing for its third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.

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☆ In the past week, 4 of Elon's direct reports have announced they are leaving Tesla
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Multiple Tesla executives announced they are leaving or have left over the past week. AdvertisementTesla has been shedding executives ahead of its Robotaxi event, with four of Elon Musk's direct reports saying they'd left the company over the past week. Tesla's director of public policy and business development Jos Dings announced on LinkedIn that he was leaving the company on October 1. On October 6, global vehicle automation and safety policy lead Marc Van Impe also announced on LinkedIn he had left Tesla. In total, Musk has lost eight of his direct reports at Tesla over the past year.

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☆ I work on Tesla's Autopilot team. I watch hours of customers' driving videos every day and am monitored constantly.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-08 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Business Insider has verified their identity and employment and corroborated their claims during our reporting on Tesla's Autopilot facilities. I didn't have any automotive or manufacturing experience before I began working on the Autopilot project. A Tesla has 9 different cameras that collect data the Autopilot team goes through in order to teach the Full Self-Driving and Autopilot software how to drive like a human. I spend hours everyday going over videos that were taken from customer cars and Tesla's in-house test drivers. AdvertisementWithin the program there are many different little projects that are all combined to create the greater Full Self-Driving and Autopilot experience.

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In 2019, Gates wrote a post titled "Grilling and chilling with Warren." In 2020, Gates wished Buffet a happy 90th birthday. Instead of writing about goofy guys' trips, Gates thanked Buffett for his generous contributions to the Gates Foundation. In 2023, Gates didn't mention Buffett in a single post. And in his 20-plus posts so far in 2024, Gates has only mentioned Buffett once, again focusing solely on philanthropy.

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☆ Elon Musk's daughter Vivian slams Walter Isaacson's Musk biography, saying it portrays her as her father's 'villain backstory'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's daughter Vivian criticized Walter Isaacson's Musk biography over its portrayal of her. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementVivian Wilson, Elon Musk's daughter, isn't happy with how she says she was depicted in Walter Isaacson's best-selling biography about her father. Wilson slammed the biography in a series of social-media posts Sunday night.

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☆ Californians are buying fewer Teslas. That could be a bad sign for Elon Musk.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewTesla has a California problem — its residents aren't buying as many of Elon Musk's electric cars as they used to. And California isn't the only place where Tesla's chokehold on the EV market is beginning to slip. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has attributed lackluster sales to high interest rates and economic uncertainty in the US. But, while Tesla's sales are dropping, the EV market as a whole is expanding, including in California. Similarly, data from CNCDA shows that EV sales in California hit their second-highest quarter on record in July.

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From government investigations to labor disputes and a custody battle, Elon Musk has a lot to lose in court. Here's the tea on Musk's lawsuits. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account?

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☆ I resigned from Tesla after nearly 8 years. I lost confidence in Elon Musk's vision for the company.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with a former Tesla employee who resigned from the company earlier this year and spoke anonymously to protect their privacy. The following year Tesla and SolarCity came to my city and I started in sales at SolarCity. When Tesla acquired SolarCity in 2016, I began working in sales for Tesla Energy. For example, I was on the sales team when Musk announced he only wanted to do online sales. The 2021 Model S and Model X refreshes were designed to make them look the same as the old models.

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☆ Elon Musk and Grimes appear in family court days after Grimes' mother accused the Tesla CEO of 'withholding' children
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk and Grimes met in Texas court for a custody dispute hearing over their three children. The former couple has been in a custody battle since September, filing lawsuits in Texas and California. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk and Grimes met in a Texas courthouse on Friday for a hearing regarding their custody dispute. The billionaire and the musician filed dueling lawsuits against one another in two different states, Texas and California respectively.

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☆ Tesla's unique approach to sales is giving it headaches
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The big storyFor saleGetty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BIOne of Tesla's biggest assets is its willingness to try new things, but its unique approach to sales is also what's giving it headaches. AdvertisementA key issue is Tesla's inability to evolve its sales tactics as the EV market rapidly changes . Business Insider's Grace Kay spoke to more than a dozen current and former employees in Tesla's sales division about how the company has tried to kick-start its sales unit . Not unlike its cars, Tesla's sales approach is innovative compared to the rest of the automotive industry. It's a great strategy when the cars sell themselves — which Teslas did for a while — since you don't need to maintain a traditional sales structure.

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☆ Tesla needs to figure out how to sell cars. Its salespeople say it's stuck in the past.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The company's sales team has been struggling to adapt to a much different market, according to 14 current and former employees from Tesla's sales division in North America. The carmaker is also attempting to fix a spate of bad publicity surrounding its CEO, Elon Musk — all with little in the way of advertising initiatives or traditional sales strategies. The electric-car maker made its mark by breaking industry standards with its ad-free, direct-to-consumer sales model. Now, some of Tesla's sales staff believe it's time for the company to begin acting like a traditional automaker. Musk has been vague about when a new, more economically priced Tesla model would hit the market, saying only that it could happen in 2025.

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☆ Chinese EV makers are outpacing Tesla in one key area
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewTesla is fighting to keep its EV crown, and Chinese automakers are already challenging Elon Musk's company in one crucial area: Innovation. The Washington DC-based think tank found that Chinese EV companies are 30% faster when it comes to developing and releasing new car models than automakers in other regions, including Tesla. AdvertisementAdditionally, Chinese electric-car companies like BYD are pumping out more new EVs than US automakers, including Tesla, ITIF said. The Think Tank warned US carmakers would need to "double down on genuine technological innovation" if they wanted to continue to compete with Chinese companies. Musk's company has been facing mounting pressure from EV companies in China, including BYD, which has been vying with Tesla for the title of top EV seller .

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☆ Grimes' mother says Elon Musk is 'withholding' his children from her daughter: 'Please Elon, I beg you'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewGrimes' mother says Elon Musk is "withholding" the former couple's children from the rest of the family. Grimes, a Canadian singer, shares three children with Musk: X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl, and Techno Mechanicus. Elon Musk in Washington, DC on Wednesday, where he watched Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address members of Congress. "As you may or may not know, Grimes is currently in a custody battle with Elon over their 3 children," Wilson wrote on Threads on Saturday. Advertisement"I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian," Grimes wrote.

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☆ Tesla's cars are starting to look pretty basic — and that's a problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But people looking for a flashy new design in Tesla's more traditional car lineup are stuck waiting for now. The Model S and Model X used to be the ultimate status symbol. In 2020, TikTok star Addison Rae made headlines when she was spotted in her bright pink Tesla Model X. And the design of the Model S and Model X hasn't been meaningfully updated since 2021. "If you start announcing some great thing, it affects our near-term sales," Musk said on Tuesday.

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