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I'm not sure you can read into these three you linked. Josh Ensign left to become COO at a different company and his stint at Tesla was the longest in his list
by simonsarris 9y ago
I'm not sure you can read into these three you linked.
Josh Ensign left to become COO at a different company and his stint at Tesla was the longest in his list of experience: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-ensign-3604431/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-ensign-3604431/
Greg Reichow worked at Tesla for 5.5 years and switched jobs to become an investor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregreichow/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregreichow/
Kurt Kelty was at Panasonic for 14 years and Tesla for 11.5. As far as we know from LinkedIn he hasn't got a new job, which you could see as fine (left for personal reasons or simply burnt out) or bad (left because he saw doom ahead, even though he didn't have another job lined up). https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurt-kelty-5604bb/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurt-kelty-5604bb/
What is so bad about these departures? Simply the timing?
- evek 9y agoI may be conservative, but I don't consider burnout to be on a "fine" side of things.
- simonsarris 9y ago11.5 years in a fast paced company that makes very ambitious deadlines is an incredible stint for anyone IMO. I'm just saying burnout after that isn't surprising, no?
- wpietri 9y agoIf they are regularly burning out key executives, then I'd say we should definitely be reading into that. That's a sign that the operation isn't sustainable in the long term, or at least will plateau at lower levels of performance than it otherwise could hit.