I’m not an SV person, but as an observer, I think Ellison’s addition will be great.
That wasn’t my first reaction when I heard the news. I was concerned, as others are, that his close relationship with Musk was just more of the same - friends and relatives with no ability to keep Musk’s antics under control. But Ellison, a maverick himself, has experience getting into trouble with regulators. But he has succeeded in being himself, but learning to avoid creating business troubles for his company. So he may be the best person to guide Musk towards the discipline needed to ensure that he won’t create the types of distractions that will take his attention away from running the business. Certainly the SEC investigation was an unneeded distraction to management at Tesla at precisely the wrong time. And as a friend, perhaps Ellison will be successful in getting Musk to actually take his advice and direction. Lastly, if nothing else, it’s a big positive that many Wall Street folks are seeing this as positive, since it relieves some of the investor pressure on Musk and the company. I could be wrong about the above, but even if so, I certainly don’t see the appointments hurting. Just my POV. - Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Dec 29, 2018, at 6:51 PM, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Why was this newswire item posted? > > IMO, clearly, Tesla Motors is not a GM/Ford/etc. old-school style automaker. > Its run just like a silicon valley hi-tech company (not like an old Detroit > style brick and mortar auto company). > > Now, some new blood has been placed on Tesla's board. One of those being > $Billionare$ Ellison who isn't known to be the quiet type > https://www.google.com/search?q=Larry+Ellison+outspoken > > With Tesla's fast/quick changes occurring (just like in hi-tech), we will > have to see how the board changes plays out for Tesla, and how it effects > their EV production. > > Tesla, like other automakers, are global. Newswires have been touting how > gaga automakers are about seeking sales profit$ from the China (& other > Asian countries). All of them > http://gmauthority.com/blog/2018/12/china-holds-the-keys-to-success-at-general-motors-with-electric-cars/ > > including Tesla > https://qz.com/1510091/tesla-cars-could-be-made-in-china-from-2019/ > want a large slice of the (moon)pie.cn profit$ > https://www.google.com/search?q=mooncake > > btw, there are evdl members that also lived/live in the silicon valley (sv) > area. I hope they will also post their views/corrections/ comments on their > sv experiences (they think& act differently there) > https://www.google.com/search?q=silicon+valley+high+tech+experience > > (Personal history) In my 25 year hi-tech career as a former Hewlett-Packard > Customer Engineer (hp-ce), I had heard of Ellison's publicized behavior at > customer sites' computer rooms, from competing companies' ce's (Sun, Compaq, > Dell, etc.) that I would work with. > > We competing companies' (Sun, Compaq, Dell, etc.) ce's would talk while we > waited (killing time) for our systems to be backed-up, shutdown, reloaded, > &or rebooted. Ellison was mentioned in our conversations because of what > wild things he would say, or do > https://www.google.com/search?q=Larry+Ellison > > I point this out because the newswires have long bashed Tesla Motors because > of Musk's activities/behavior. > > ? -Does Ellison's arrival signal a shift that the media will now focus on > him (letting Musk get on with pumping out product) > > ? -Or, will Ellison's behavior denigrate/distract Tesla from achieving their > goals? > > Then again, Ellison's track record with Apple, suggests he may not be with > Tesla long enough to do either benefit, or damage(?) > > I head toward an end this rant post with a first hand observation of how > radical and quickly things transition/change in sv. > > My job would take inside many companies (Apple, Albertsons, Sun, Intel, > Yahoo, Lockheed, Oracle, 3Com, Cisco, Nat.Semiconductor, Cadence.D.Sys, > Applied Materials, Amdahl, Ampex, Hm.Depot, +many-more, just to name a few). > Going into so many companies over decades gave me an insight on how sv > hi-tech companies think and behave (very different, hbo.com/silicon-valley > only gives a whiff of the wackadoodle goings on). > > -for years during my hp ce career, I supported the (former hp, then) Agilent > Deer Creek site. Now, the site is owned by Tesla > https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2009/08/18/tesla-to-move-its-headquarters-to-palo-alto > > I would come by and drive around the outside of the site for a brief visit > to see the changes (I liked all the hpwc EVSE Tesla installed in the small > lobby entrance parking lot. Not much had changed on the site with Tesla > taking ownership (still just as hp/Agilent-style warm and friendly) > https://goo.gl/maps/wpEFtTw4qHt > > Then recently because of the Tesla-3 production push, parking at their Deer > Creek became very crowded > https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/04/14/teslas-parking-problem-says-a-lot-about-elon-musks-brand-of-tech-saviorism/ > > Still, even with the crowded valet parking, once I explained to the parking > control officer I was leaving and had just come by to briefly see my former > hp site, she was polite and kind > https://i0.wp.com/usa.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/04/tesla-insta-777x437.jpg > > -years ago on one hp-ce call I had at the then Sun Microsystems Menlo Park > site > https://www.google.com/search?q=sun+microsystems+menlo+park&tbm=isch > at that time, it too was an open campus, with happy and friendly employees > and outside support/maintenance people > (the former hp employee who preferred to use his hp unix workstation instead > of the Sun Spark station he had been given, gloated that the only thing > wrong after years of service, was overheating from a stopped/seized > sleeve-bearing box-cooling-fan, thus it auto-shutdown. I replaced it with a > longer lasting ball-bearing fan, and it booted up just fine. I left with an > all-smiles, happy Sun customer). > > -later, after Ellison's Oracle had bought Sun, Oracle sold that Sun Menlo > Park site to Facebook > https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=facebook+menlo+park > > Wow, what a change to the whole persona of the site. > While employees and others could drive in or out of the site, it was > basically a closed campus with everyone being watch by security. If you did > not look like an affluent employee, security would chase you down to > (harass) write you up, and then chase you out (total paranoia to the point > of weirdness. I wouldn't want to work there, yuk). > > Bottom line: things-at or the timbre-of a sv hi-tech company can change very > quickly > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre > > I am hoping Tesla's Board changes are for the good, or at least do not cause > harm. That stops the continued success of Tesla producing and selling their > high quality EVs > (then I will be all-smiles). > > > > > For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: > http://evdl.org/archive/ > > > {brucedp.neocities.org} > > -- > Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
