We have heard from several sources who told us that the reason for these firings is because Rebecca Tinucci, former head of Tesla's EV Charging division, resisted Musk's demand to fire large portions of her team.
While this is hearsay, it's plausible considering the language in Musk's letter announcing the firings – which claimed that some executives are not taking headcount reduction seriously, and made a point to say that executives who retain the wrong employees may see themselves and their whole teams cut. It isn't a stretch to think that Musk included those demands since they were related to his firing of Tinucci and her team.
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I love Elons management strategy:
I have a friend who works at SpaceX and he was telling me about Rocket Daddy shitposting on the all_in email alias at 3am sending unformatted messages about needing help running some machine on the shop floor by himself years before the Twitter acquisition
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