Tesla’s Board Have the Moral Fortitude of a Damp Cheeseburger

Tesla’s board should be a check on Musk’s power, but they’ve become Musk’s biggest enablers. From wild conspiracy tweets to unchecked billion-dollar payouts, where is the accountability?

In a Delaware courtroom In January 2024, Judge Kathaleen McCormick dropped a bombshell. With a few choice words, she effectively told the world that Tesla’s board of directors — supposedly the watchdogs of one of the most valuable companies in the United States — had all the backbone of a chocolate eclair left out in the Fremont sun.

The judge had just voided Elon Musk’s $56 billion compensation package, calling it “an unfathomable sum” born from a “deeply flawed” process.

You’d think that kind of judicial smackdown would prompt some serious soul-searching in Tesla’s boardroom. Maybe a few resignations, or at least a strongly worded memo about the importance of independent oversight.

But no.

This is Tesla after all.

Where responsibility goes to die.

The Watchdogs That Didn’t Bark

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