Tesla board opened search for a CEO to succeed Elon Musk, WSJ reports

[André]

Chairwoman of TSLA who is liquidating all her stake is now denying this story... the rats will leave the ship soon.

https://electrek.co/2025/05/01/tesl...-only-right-thing-it-has-been-reported-to-do/

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[andrewgrhogg]

Be careful what you wish for. What’s apple done since Jobs passed?

Ummmm, Tim Cook has:
1. Added over $2 trillion in shareholder value
2. Taken Services revenue from $5 billion to $90 billion
3. Significant global expansion into China, India, Vietnam and Latin America.
4. Carbon neutral for Operations with goal of 100% across all parts by 20230
5. Launched the Watch, AirPods and VisionPro

The problem for Tesla is that most of its consumers are not uneducated Maga morons. They stopped buying Teslas (and sold the Teslas they owned) not because Musk ran Tesla, but because most of Musks wealth came from tesla. Removing him as CEO wont change this.

 

[Motoarzon]

GULLIBLE MUCH? This has been debunked already. RULE#1. 99.9% of all the negative headlines you read about Tesla are absolutely BS. Here's the PROOF: Any news article can write anything, anybody can say one thing or another. But when people and big fund managers (millions of them) put their money where their mouth is and "vote with their money" that mechanism holds way more weighting on the actual real truth about a company. FACT: Tesla stock is up 15% in the past 6mths, 55% in the last 1year, 80% in the last 2years, 10% in that last 3yrs, 600% in the last 5years and 1,500% in the last 10yrs.
If all the negative headlines and things you hear around town this past week, month, year, 5yr, 10yrs ago were actually true do you really think all the people and all the very smart financial professionals around the world would have been fooled hundreds and hundreds of times over and over again and put their money where they shouldn't have? Ignore the short term noise and look at the actual value of Tesla and where it's trending over the long term based on the real things they have, do, and have coming down the pipe. All supported by "millions and millions" of votes that people made with their money. You may not follow the fine details of Tesla, know all the in's & out's about their technology or know inside information, or interpret balance sheets & earnings about a company....but the share price and long term trend "does all that work for you" and makes it easy.
FYI: The exact same BS was said about Apple, Amazon Google, Facebook ect... since decades ago as well. If you're not invested in Tesla you're a fool. But hey, do you want to be right or do you just want to get rich?? I chose to get rich, fully retired 3.5yrs ago at age 49. Because since 25yrs ago, while all the fools were saying that Apple is garbage and going bankrupt, Amazon same, Google same, Nvidia same, Facebook Same ect..ect..... I ignored the noise, remained invested and added more when share prices went on sale!

 

[COdogman]

GULLIBLE MUCH? This has been debunked already. RULE#1. 99.9% of all the negative headlines you read about Tesla are absolutely BS. Here's the PROOF: Any news article can write anything, anybody can say one thing or another. But when people and big fund managers (millions of them) put their money where their mouth is and "vote with their money" that mechanism holds way more weighting on the actual real truth about a company. FACT: Tesla stock is up 15% in the past 6mths, 55% in the last 1year, 80% in the last 2years, 10% in that last 3yrs, 600% in the last 5years and 1,500% in the last 10yrs.
If all the negative headlines and things you hear around town this past week, month, year, 5yr, 10yrs ago were actually true do you really think all the people and all the very smart financial professionals around the world would have been fooled hundreds and hundreds of times over and over again and put their money where they shouldn't have? Ignore the short term noise and look at the actual value of this Tesla and where it's trending over the long term based on the real things they have, do, and have coming down the pipe and all supported by "millions and millions" of votes that people made with their money.
FYI: The exact same BS was said about Apple, Amazon Google, Facebook ect... since decades ago as well. If you're not invested in Tesla you're a fool. But hey, do you want to be right or do you just want to get rich? I chose to get rich, and that I did. Fully retired 3.5yrs ago at age 49. Because while all the fools were saying since 25yrs ago that Apple is garbage and going bankrupt, Amazon same, Google same, Nvidia same, Facebook Same ect... I ignored the noise and remained invested!

Using your own logic we shouldn't believe anything you say either, because "anyone can say anything"

 

[captainjp]

GULLIBLE MUCH? This has been debunked already. RULE#1. 99.9% of all the negative headlines you read about Tesla are absolutely BS. Here's the PROOF: Any news article can write anything, anybody can say one thing or another. But when people and big fund managers (millions of them) put their money where their mouth is and "vote with their money" that mechanism holds way more weighting on the actual real truth about a company. FACT: Tesla stock is up 15% in the past 6mths, 55% in the last 1year, 80% in the last 2years, 10% in that last 3yrs, 600% in the last 5years and 1,500% in the last 10yrs.
If all the negative headlines and things you hear around town this past week, month, year, 5yr, 10yrs ago were actually true do you really think all the people and all the very smart financial professionals around the world would have been fooled hundreds and hundreds of times over and over again and put their money where they shouldn't have? Ignore the short term noise and look at the actual value of Tesla and where it's trending over the long term based on the real things they have, do, and have coming down the pipe. All supported by "millions and millions" of votes that people made with their money. You may not follow the fine details of Tesla, know all the in's & out's about their technology or know inside information, or interpret balance sheets & earnings about a company....but the share price and long term trend "does all that work for you" and makes it easy.
FYI: The exact same BS was said about Apple, Amazon Google, Facebook ect... since decades ago as well. If you're not invested in Tesla you're a fool. But hey, do you want to be right or do you just want to get rich?? I chose to get rich, fully retired 3.5yrs ago at age 49. Because since 25yrs ago, while all the fools were saying that Apple is garbage and going bankrupt, Amazon same, Google same, Nvidia same, Facebook Same ect..ect..... I ignored the noise, remained invested and added more when share prices went on sale!

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[SoCal Rob]

I use Windows at work and Apple for my personal stuff (cuz after dealing with Windows development tools, domains and related nonsense all day, that's the last thing I want to do at home).

I’m the same since around 2016 or so when I said I was ending Windows support at home: someone literally has to pay me to use Windows. I got to this point because I couldn’t deny that adding Apple devices in my life made things easier while adding other competing devices in my life generally meant less stability and more time fixing problems.

Apple and their devices aren’t perfect and I’ve never seen them be cheaper than their least expensive competitor. However, I use their devices in a complex environment (laptops, phones, tablets, watches, set top boxes, smart homes, multiple users, etc.) and I find the VALUE to be unparalleled for quality/duration of useful life, feature set, reliability, and ease of use.

 

[OverEasyGoing]

As long as Elon still owns a bunch of Tesla stock, buyers won’t be owning Teslas, no matter who is CEO.

This is such an important point. A new CEO would just be optics, it won't change the fact that he owns 410 million shares.

 

[Motoarzon]

Using your own logic we shouldn't believe anything you say either, because "anyone can say anything"

Sure, any "one" individual or "one" media outlet can say anything because they don't have a dog in the fight or it's their job to write a catchy news headline. But what is true, and goes for "all" companies is the consensus of "millions" of votes every day. Those who have voted with their money! The long term stock performance has proven that all those past negative news headlines were BS. And this current headline is either BS or the consensus of votes says even if it were true, it wouldn't matter.

 

[PaythePiper]

Ummmm, Tim Cook has:
1. Added over $2 trillion in shareholder value
2. Taken Services revenue from $5 billion to $90 billion
3. Significant global expansion into China, India, Vietnam and Latin America.
4. Carbon neutral for Operations with goal of 100% across all parts by 20230
5. Launched the Watch, AirPods and VisionPro

The problem for Tesla is that most of its consumers are not uneducated Maga morons. They stopped buying Teslas (and sold the Teslas they owned) not because Musk ran Tesla, but because most of Musks wealth came from tesla. Removing him as CEO wont change this.

You lost me at Vision Pro lol

 

[PaythePiper]

Turned into the highest valued company in the history of the world?

I’m sure none of that was because of the iPhone under Jobs…..

 

[COdogman]

Sure, any "one" individual or "one" media outlet can say anything because they don't have a dog in the fight or it's their job to write a catchy news headline. But what is true, and goes for "all" companies is the consensus of "millions" of votes every day. Those who have voted with their money! The long term stock performance has proven that all those past negative news headlines were BS. And this current headline is either BS or the consensus of votes says even if it were true, it wouldn't matter.

So now it might be true but it was voted down by a BOD handpicked by Leon himself and in your opinion that doesn't matter?

 

[André]

Sure, any "one" individual or "one" media outlet can say anything because they don't have a dog in the fight or it's their job to write a catchy news headline. But what is true, and goes for "all" companies is the consensus of "millions" of votes every day. Those who have voted with their money! The long term stock performance has proven that all those past negative news headlines were BS. And this current headline is either BS or the consensus of votes says even if it were true, it wouldn't matter.

Well those who « voted » to buy a Tesla in the past may not repeat that for their future purchases… this case study on how to destroy shareholders value will be teach in schools.

 

[emlo]

Be careful what you wish for. What’s apple done since Jobs passed?

You understand that Elon was founder in name only, right? Look it up it’s quite fascinating how he became a founder.

 

[mkg3]

Well those who « voted » to buy a Tesla in the past may not repeat that for their future purchases… this case study on how to destroy shareholders value will be teach in schools.

Don't know the source and who was asked to participate in the survey but if you replace the word Tesla with EV, the percentage would not change very much for the general public.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

I’m sure none of that was because of the iPhone under Jobs…..

No one will argue that Steve Jobs wasn’t an innovator and that he laid the groundwork for Apple but Tim Cook is better at business. Apple is better now because Cook continued the legacy of innovation but also increased market share. Thanks to the in house Apple chipsets developed recently Apple is the leader in laptops by a large margin IMO.

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