Matthew LaBrot was fired after posting a protest letter against Elon Musk's leadership. We spoke with him about this move and his thoughts on life at the company in the Trump era.
Nice interview. It presents more evidence for a story I just published on substack comparing the boycotts that Henry Ford and Elon Musk brought upon themselves. History repeating. Ford also tried to shoot the messenger ... from my notes that I did not include in the story, but would've if I had seen your interview a week ago:
"Warren C. Anderson, director of European operations, was fired after complaining that Ford's campaign had resulted in a virtual boycott of Ford cars overseas."
Kudos on getting featured in Yahoo Finance article! Just goes to show that news outlets pick up on Substack posts for their authentic content and views 👏🏽
This goes to show the importance of taking down Tesla and Elon. Elon is the complete opposite of a free speech absolutist - he's a thin skinned authoritarian who wants to silence crimethink. The fact that he already controls the platform that decides what's trending is a complete disaster. Everyone needs to move off X now.
And you pretending his whining wouldn’t get him fired at any worthwhile company is bizarre.
Elon might suck, but that has nothing to do with Matthew being a weasely little bitch, and you jumping on the narrative because it aligns with your politics.
Let’s see : You own a company that makes money off of clean(ish) energy, enjoy various government subsidies which was the only way you stayed profitable. And then you support the party that despises any kind of renewable or sustainable energy, loves big oil and big coal. Your main customers are the fleece wearing kale eating types. So by this support of the republicans you irrevocably offend a large portion of your customers, support a government that ends all renewable energy credits and other subsidies. At a time where electric vehicles sales in general are declining because the infrastructure can’t keep up( in part). No worries you will just funnel the profits from your other companies. Like the one whose rockets keep exploding or the one whose only claim to fame is a 400 ft tunnel or maybe that dumpster fire of a social media company you had to sell to another one of your shell companies so the loans on your tanking tesla stocks that leveraged the sale wouldn’t be called in?
"I actually purchased a brand new computer and only worked on it at home using my home network"
Well that's the problem right there... the IP address he was using could be traced right to his home. And did he use a anonymizing private VPN service? I bet he didn't. This guy isn't THAT tech savvy if he didn't understand this.
What he should have done is had a separate laptop that he bought with CASH, then used that laptop only on networks that had NO obvious connection to him... so no using it on his home internet or even at a cafe local to him.
And he should have done the open letter using the public wifi in a cafe or restaurant without cameras while also using a private VPN service. And preferably in a town or city he never visited before and will never visit again. And when going to that town or city, leave his personal and work cell phone at home because cell phones are essentially tracking devices.
And while there, pay for everything with cash... to leave no electronic evidence he was ever there.
Then after that was done, wipe the laptop and get rid of it.... And I don't mean sell it, I mean destroy and dispose of it. You won't even want to keep that laptop because the wifi adaptor will have a unique mac address.
So that's what I would have done if I worked at Tesla and wanted to write an open letter that wouldn't go over well... and I didn't want to be found out.
Yeah, but you’re probably not a useless retard. Reading what the guy was saying about how he was ‘value adding’, I think that’s probably the problem at the heart of it.
Nice interview. It presents more evidence for a story I just published on substack comparing the boycotts that Henry Ford and Elon Musk brought upon themselves. History repeating. Ford also tried to shoot the messenger ... from my notes that I did not include in the story, but would've if I had seen your interview a week ago:
"Warren C. Anderson, director of European operations, was fired after complaining that Ford's campaign had resulted in a virtual boycott of Ford cars overseas."
Kudos on getting featured in Yahoo Finance article! Just goes to show that news outlets pick up on Substack posts for their authentic content and views 👏🏽
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insider-interview-ex-tesla-manager-004500031.htmlInsider interview with ex-Tesla manager reveals it could soon be 'game over' for Elon Musk's Tesla: 'I don't think that there's anything he can do'
I wish Matthew success in finding another job soon. Today's world needs many more people willing to speak the truth
This goes to show the importance of taking down Tesla and Elon. Elon is the complete opposite of a free speech absolutist - he's a thin skinned authoritarian who wants to silence crimethink. The fact that he already controls the platform that decides what's trending is a complete disaster. Everyone needs to move off X now.
Matthew sounds like a brat looking for attention.
And you pretending his whining wouldn’t get him fired at any worthwhile company is bizarre.
Elon might suck, but that has nothing to do with Matthew being a weasely little bitch, and you jumping on the narrative because it aligns with your politics.
Let’s see : You own a company that makes money off of clean(ish) energy, enjoy various government subsidies which was the only way you stayed profitable. And then you support the party that despises any kind of renewable or sustainable energy, loves big oil and big coal. Your main customers are the fleece wearing kale eating types. So by this support of the republicans you irrevocably offend a large portion of your customers, support a government that ends all renewable energy credits and other subsidies. At a time where electric vehicles sales in general are declining because the infrastructure can’t keep up( in part). No worries you will just funnel the profits from your other companies. Like the one whose rockets keep exploding or the one whose only claim to fame is a 400 ft tunnel or maybe that dumpster fire of a social media company you had to sell to another one of your shell companies so the loans on your tanking tesla stocks that leveraged the sale wouldn’t be called in?
Lol, what a half-wit.
"I actually purchased a brand new computer and only worked on it at home using my home network"
Well that's the problem right there... the IP address he was using could be traced right to his home. And did he use a anonymizing private VPN service? I bet he didn't. This guy isn't THAT tech savvy if he didn't understand this.
What he should have done is had a separate laptop that he bought with CASH, then used that laptop only on networks that had NO obvious connection to him... so no using it on his home internet or even at a cafe local to him.
And he should have done the open letter using the public wifi in a cafe or restaurant without cameras while also using a private VPN service. And preferably in a town or city he never visited before and will never visit again. And when going to that town or city, leave his personal and work cell phone at home because cell phones are essentially tracking devices.
And while there, pay for everything with cash... to leave no electronic evidence he was ever there.
Then after that was done, wipe the laptop and get rid of it.... And I don't mean sell it, I mean destroy and dispose of it. You won't even want to keep that laptop because the wifi adaptor will have a unique mac address.
So that's what I would have done if I worked at Tesla and wanted to write an open letter that wouldn't go over well... and I didn't want to be found out.
Yeah, but you’re probably not a useless retard. Reading what the guy was saying about how he was ‘value adding’, I think that’s probably the problem at the heart of it.