Yeah, let's take the 2nd best engineer at Tesla off the floor and put him in the office... /S
No, it's Zach, it's CEO, and it's Nov. (after Elon's 3-yr secnalty is over).
You continually demonstrate you ignorance and arrogance. Zach is a mechanical engineer who worked (as an engineer) for years at Tesla before returning for a Harvard MBA. Some of the largest automakers on earth are lead by CEO's who are P.Eng's and MBAs. The combination is hard to beat.
You opinion is wrong, as is your insistance on repeating it without new evidence.
That's such an awful and WRONG take.
So you are going to tell Leonard De Vinci which of the 7 areas he is allowed to participate in?
Babe Ruth would have been a Hall of Fame Pitcher if that's what he stuck to. I think you would have forced him to only pitch.
Such small minded thinking. Very gross. Just because you may not be a polymath doesn't mean they don't exist.
Just as one can find economy in engineering, one can find engineering in economy.
My original post:Apparently you disagree with Zach as to his own career. Wikipedia has his bio: Zach Kirkhorn - Wikipedia, as does his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachkirkhorn.
Wikipedia says:
Education
From 2002 to 2006, Kirkhorn studied both Economics at The Wharton School and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology. In 2013, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Career
During his studies in 2005, Kirkhorn joined Microsoft as a Financial Analyst Intern. In 2006, he did another 4-month internship at Microsoft as Program Manager Intern. After graduating in 2006, Kirkhorn spent nearly 3 years working at McKinsey & Company as a Senior Business Analyst.
In 2010, Kirkhorn joined Tesla as a Senior Analyst in Finance. In December 2014, he became Director of Finance, and in December 2018 he was appointed as Vice President of Finance. On January 30, 2019, Kirkhorn was announced to replace Deepak Ahuja as Tesla's new CFO on the Q4 Tesla earning call.
So when it comes to ignorance and arrogance, I think you win. This is not "new evidence".
So the fact is that Zach is a bean-counter, no matter how good. He was never an engineer. It is my opinion that that means he will never be CEO of Tesla, and that Elon will have lost his mind if he puts him in that position. It's not possible for him to do the job as it needs to be done for a company like Tesla. He's just great at the job he's doing.
First question is will Elon replace himself initially in just the COO position. My thinking is yes. Why not prove out his successor first? Gwynne remains COO at SpaceX - she is much closer to CEO than anyone else at Tesla. Clearly Elon is comfortable with the role.Drew to make COO at the Shareholder meeting?
I see Drew as COO and Zach as CFO sharing the responsibilities. One of them will step up and make CEO in a few years - my money is on Drew.