Tesla names Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to board after SEC settlement
Tesla named Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to its board on Friday, in compliance with an SEC settlement. The appointments add needed business and human resources expertise to the board — though add to questions about CEO Elon Musk's influence over the board.
Wilson-Thompson is the global head of human resources at Walgreens Boots Alliance and a former executive at Kellogg. Ellison is co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle, and recently disclosed a massive personal stake in Tesla.
[...] A Tesla spokesperson downplayed Ellison and Musk's personal relationship, saying the two had only socialized a handful of times and always in a group setting. The spokesperson said Musk and Ellison had not spoken for about a year leading up to Ellison's appointment to the board.
Also at The Verge.
(Score: 1) by The Vocal Minority on Sunday December 30 2018, @04:30AM (1 child)
Did you actually watch the interview (and not just some silly summary video of out of context quotes made by someone pushing an agenda)?
I really liked it. I think it made Musk seem a lot more like an interesting person with some clever and nuanced ideas, and much less like the screaming loon he comes of as in some media reports. The "living in a simulation" stuff though, yeah that's still a bit weird.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday December 30 2018, @05:47AM
Way too much attention is paid to that scenario when it's just physicists pranking the media.
But if we do manage to create Matrix-like neural lace VR, then we can talk about it again. Wait, shit, it already exists and I'm part of the simulation. Break out of here, Vocal Minority!
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