When Elon Musk started an offer for the acquisition of Twitter for the first time three years ago, many of his followers would oppose the most trustworthy lieutenant of the entrepreneur Tesla quickly interfered to offer his unconditional support.
“Thanks for what you do. We all love you and are always behind you!” Omead Afshar wrote in A SMS sent the same April day. “For everyone, there is a global platform that is really freedom of speech.”
On Thursday, Forbes And CNBC reported that Afshar was released and was to blame not to turn a steep waste into sale, which traces its origin on the controversial Twitter purchase.
After his controversial management Teslas once started quickly from the Social Media platform in 2023 before becoming a negative For the first time last year.
But only after Musk completed his Political journey From the center to “DarkAs he called himself, the sales really began to breastfeed.
Tesla, who saw that at the beginning of this month departure From his humanoid robot program director, did not answer A Assets Request for an explanation. Afshar was not available for a comment.
Musks Jack-of-All-Trade
Afshar started in the office for the CEO eight years ago and was a Jack-of-all trade that was used to solve various problems and earned him the call of a “fixer”.
After Afshar described his role at Tesla, she took a break to think. “It changes in the minute, it depends on the day of the week when you ask me,” he said at the time. “I support business, everything and everyone to do.”
His most outstanding role came in the establishment of Austin Gigafactory, a plant with a larger footprint than the Pentagon. It would continue to be the Heart of the company of the companywhere new technological innovations such as structural 4680 -battery and the cyber truck were first introduced.
It has recently become a new “Cortex” mather center for training its self-driving software and will be the production site for the upcoming Cybercab Robotaxi model.
Shortly after Trump sailed to victory, Musk trusted Afshar in November with the solution of his growth Claim. However, it seems that there are some things that he could not repair.
Tesla’s reputation from the best to the worst
Chair of sales just like the “Tesla TakedownBoykotte collected steam in the USA, the pace of the brand’s descent has collected steam since then.
The global deliveries decreased by 13% in the first quarter, with Muschus admitted that he had had.great difficultyHis companies while serving the Trump administration.
The situation is worse in Europe, where Musk’s fascist greeting and his approval From the right-wing extremist AfD party in Germany, consumers fled out of the brand in the middle of the brand ”Tesla shame”.
The latest data from Europe, a market under Afshar task, shows Sales dropped by 37% in the two months to May.
Whether Afshar could have solved this is very doubtful, since the problem is strongly based on Musk’s own decisions. Perhaps the best indicator that represents his fall from Grace was the annual Axios Harris survey, in which consumers are asked to name two companies that come to mind with the best or worst reputation.
Months after completing the Twitter deal, the survey first registered in 2023 a sharp falls In the direction of Tesla, who had only reached the 8th place two years earlier.
Last month, HoweverMusk’s car manufacturer joined Twitter (now “X”) and the Trump organization among those who were called with the worst reputation.
