Tesla investor calls for Elon Musk to step down as boss
![]() One of Tesla's earliest investors has told Sky News that Elon Musk should step aside as the carmaker's chief executive unless he gives up his new government job. Ross Gerber said in an interview with Sky's Business Live that the tycoon and adviser to Donald Trump had lost his focus given his widening interests and was now too "divisive". He cited Musk's post-election role at the helm of the Trump administration's new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It has attracted public anger, and protests, over planned swingeing cuts to federal government staff. Mr Gerber said: "I think Tesla needs a new CEO and I decided today I was going to start saying it and so this is the first show that I'm saying it on. "It's time for somebody to run Tesla. The business has been neglected for too long. There are too many important things Tesla is doing, so either Elon should come back to Tesla and be the CEO of Tesla and give up his other jobs or he should focus on the government and keep doing what he is doing but find a suitable CEO of Tesla." Mr Gerber told presenter Darren McCaffrey that the business was "absolutely" in crisis and the appointment was among several reasons he had sold off a substantial number of shares in recent months. A slump began shortly before Mr Trump took office, as the first salvoes of the president's trade war were being threatened. |
Tesla investor calls for Elon Musk to step down as boss
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