Onetime Musk Whisperer Had to Peel CEO Off the Floor at Tesla

Jon McNeill is walking through Manhattan’s Clement Clarke Moore Park, recalling the exact day when he’d had enough of working for Elon Musk. It was the end of a bruising 2017, in which Tesla Inc. was stumbling over its effort to release the Model 3 and, in particular, failing to get robots to build them. McNeill, who was the company’s president, and his deputies stood side by side with Musk on the assembly line figuring out how to reconstruct it. The whole process took eight months, and the car was late, but they eventually got it done. ...