Tesla’s top accountant exits after a month on the job

It was reported that US Air Force was looking into Elon Musk’s marijuana smoking, his security clearance.

In an email to employees, CEO Elon Musk said Toledano was on leave to “spend more time with her family and has chose to continue doing so for personal reasons”. Or maybe he tried one once. Rogan then said “it’s totally legal”, and Musk said “OK” and took a drag.

Marijuana is legal for medical and recreational use in California, where the interview took place.

In July he shocked investors by announcing on Twitter that he had funding secured to take his vehicle firm Tesla private.

Musk told Rogan that running Tesla is the hardest of his several endeavors.

Now let me perfectly clear. And now that the technology that underpins Tesla’s products has matured, is it time for a more traditional CEO to step in and help the company level-off into a stable and profitable enterprise? “There’s a reason for the word ‘stoned.’ You just sit there like a stone on weed”, he said.

The spot on one of the most popular podcasts in the US marks Musk’s first appearance in a public forum since he stunned the financial world last month with his short-lived effort to take Tesla private.

Along with his electric vehicle company, Musk heads up space exploration firm Space X, tunnel construction firm The Boring Company, and Neuralink, which works on augmenting human brains with artificial intelligence. “Not the vehicle, but Nikola”. This is all bad news if you work for one of Elon Musk’s companies or care about him as a person. “I don’t think they would like it very much”. “You probably can’t because of stockholders, right?”

Tesla is now worth roughly $US21 billion less than it was in the immediate aftermath of Musk’s infamous “funding secured” tweet.

On Tuesday, Tesla Chief Accounting Officer Dave Morton announced after a month in his position that he was resigning from the company, effective immediately.

Musk caused jitters for shareholders last month when he announced, out of the blue, that he was planning to make the company private, before backtracking and saying it would remain public.

Separately, human resources chief Gabrielle Toledano told Bloomberg she planned to exit the company, rather than return from a leave of absence. So it all kind of evens out.

The South African born entrepreneur shared thoughts on those topics and more during a podcast with comedian Joe Rogan that lasted more than two hours, stretching into the early hours of Friday.