Who knows the real story here, but I can imagine once your stock options vest, financial prudence and personal sanity don't really point to doing the next big ramp-up at Tesla.<p>You're heavily recruitable for large swaths of stock at any number of startups, presumably with a status bump on top, or you could just take your well earned millions and chill for a bit.<p>Whoever is running the Model 3 delivery program is going to be living at the office for the next 36 months, by contrast.
Interesting timing for this as they report earnings tonight. They also announced that they've leased 2 buildings near Livermore that give them almost 1,000,000 square feet of space.<p>There is alot of speculation on CNBC that these announcements were made early to help direct the investors call as TSLA is widely expect to report poor earnings this quarter due to Model X delays.<p>Tesla's Powerwall is also starting to be installed. I always thought they'd announced the powerwall to gauge interest. I assumed that they'd want to focus all their battery storage capacity towards car deliveries. I guess this is a positive sign that they can meet their battery needs.
Listening to the earnings call today Elon said one of them is staying on for a transition, and that they will be announcing a big hire in the coming weeks. Sounds like an experienced veteran in production?<p>I mean, this sounds like it could be hype but they have a pretty special thing with this many pre orders, US manufacturing, and a really exciting product.
Ahead of model 3 ramp-up? Last I checked they didn't even have a single "production" car yet and that ramp-up isn't scheduled to happen for the next two years.<p>It's like saying "Obama to leave ahead of zombie apocalypse".