Tesla’s Chair Told Shareholders Elon Musk Might Leave Unless They Approved a $1 Trillion Pay Deal. They Did.
Tesla board chair Robyn Denholm publicly campaigned for Elon Musk's roughly $1 trillion pay package ahead of the company's November…
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MongoDB’s CEO Left After Less Than a Year to Run Meta’s New Enterprise Business. The Stock Fell Up to 24 Percent, but the Talent Signal Matters More.
MongoDB's September 28 announcement that CEO CJ Desai is leaving for a new Meta enterprise role, with Dev Ittycheria returning…
Carlos Tavares Resigned From Stellantis in 2024. His Successor Is Now Spending $70 Billion Undoing His EV Bet.
Former Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares resigned in December 2024 amid boardroom disagreements over strategy; in 2026, his successor Antonio Filosa…
Tesla’s Former CTO Is Now Feeding Dead EV Batteries to AI Data Centers — And Just Raised $425 Million to Do More of It
JB Straubel, Tesla's founding CTO, has pivoted his battery recycling company Redwood Materials toward grid-scale energy storage built from retired…
VW’s Oliver Blume Gave Up Running Porsche to Focus on One Job. Now He’s Fighting to Avoid Closing German Plants for the First Time Ever.
Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume shed his dual role running Porsche to focus solely on VW, only to face a 2025…
Mercedes’ Ola Källenius Watched Profit Halve on Tariffs — Then His Reworked EV Strategy Won Car of the Year
Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius absorbed a $1.2 billion tariff hit and a full-year profit collapse driven by China competition, then…
Peter Rawlinson Left Lucid a Year Ago. The Company He Built Just Cut 18% of Its Staff and Pulled Its Guidance.
A year after engineer-turned-CEO Peter Rawlinson stepped down from Lucid Motors, the company he built has a new permanent CEO,…
Rivian’s RJ Scaringe Finally Shipped the Cheaper SUV He Promised — Orders Beat His Own Forecast
Rivian began delivering its mid-size R2 SUV in June 2026, and founder RJ Scaringe says early order conversion is running…
Ford’s Jim Farley Posted an $11.1 Billion Loss, Then Bet $5 Billion on a ‘Model T Moment’
Ford's CEO absorbed the company's worst quarterly loss since 2008 on the back of a $15.5 billion EV writedown, then…
Mary Barra Took $10.9 Billion in EV Charges — Then Posted GM’s Best Quarter in Years
GM's CEO absorbed nearly $11 billion in EV-related charges after federal incentives disappeared, then reported a $3.9 billion quarterly profit…