Elon Musk has more than 20 direct reports at Tesla — here's who they are

Elon Musk has tally 2 ambitious tech companies astatine the aforesaid clip ever since helium became president and aboriginal CEO of electrical conveyance shaper Tesla portion besides starring SpaceX, his re-usable rocket and outer net business.

He went connected to motorboat a computer-brain interface startup, Neuralink, and a drilling concern called Boring Co. successful 2017, and is successful the midst of a contentious suit with Twitter implicit a buyout gone awry.

With his attraction divided, Musk relies connected a ample squad of deputies -- much than 20 radical contiguous -- to support concern rolling astatine Tesla. His formed of nonstop reports shifts often with strategical oregon organizational changes, occasional "spot firings" by the mercurial CEO, and resignations.

Here are the nonstop reports we cognize astir arsenic of Sept. 2022. The information was gathered from interviews with existent and caller Tesla employees, LinkedIn profiles, interior and nationalist records from Tesla, and whitethorn not see each of the radical who study to him.

Headcount numbers are approximate and notation to the fig of radical each of Musk's nonstop reports was managing arsenic of aboriginal September.

About 22% of the CEO's nonstop reports are present based successful Texas, astir fractional are inactive based successful California, and much than 90% are men.

Musk volition request to thin connected these deputies arsenic Tesla works to bring its caller factories successful Gruenheide, Germany, and Austin, Texas to afloat production, and to show advancement connected his galore different goals.

Musk has told shareholders and fans that Tesla volition "solve Full Self-Driving" this year, amended conveyance work and repairs, and commencement deliveries of the experimental Cybertruck pickup by mid-year 2023. Musk besides said that Tesla would enactment up its artillery manufacturing capabilities to beryllium capable to nutrient 100 gigawatt-hours worthy of 4680 batteries connected its ain this year, capable to powerfulness much than a cardinal of its cars.

Musk's nonstop reports person besides precocious needed to navigate done headcount reductions amid uncertain economical times.

The CEO abruptly announced a steep chopped to the Tesla workforce astatine the extremity of May during a challenging 2nd quarter, marked by Russia's penetration of Ukraine and Covid outbreaks successful China.

In June, Tesla closed an entire Autopilot office successful San Mateo, and dismissed astatine slightest immoderate employees who were antecedently authorized for distant enactment but who did not hold to an bid by Musk to work astatine a Tesla office astatine slightest 40 hours per week. Musk cited a "super atrocious feeling" about the system successful an email to Tesla unit successful June.

Tesla's erstwhile elder manager of AI, Andrej Karpathy, was not among those who Musk laid disconnected oregon fired, nevertheless -- helium announced his resignation from the institution formally successful July. Autopilot person Ashok Elluswamy is reporting straight to Musk for the clip being.

Other Musk nonstop reports who parted ways with Tesla successful 2022 person included erstwhile Nevada Gigafactory VP Chris Lister, arsenic CNBC previously reported, and Jean Frazier, who was Tesla's elder manager of worker relations, according to interior documents viewed by CNBC.

David Searle, who antecedently headed up Tesla's ineligible department, is inactive employed there, records indicate. Insiders said they expect Searle to permission successful coming months arsenic helium antecedently managed much than a twelve employees, and present has lone 1 nonstop study listed connected interior org charts.

According to nationalist and interior records, Senior Director of Legal Dinna Eskin is present acting arsenic the manager of Tesla's ineligible section and is efficaciously the company's wide counsel. Tesla hasn't employed a idiosyncratic with the rubric of wide counsel officially since precocious 2019.