“Turns out that Tesla isn’t a good fit for me after all,” Lattner, who worked at Apple Inc for more than a decade before joining Tesla in January, tweeted. “I’m interested to hear about interesting roles for a seasoned engineering leader!”
That didn’t last long.
so, after the doom-hysteria when Lattner left Apple — will the same dramatics be applied to Tesla for losing him too? or is panic just for Apple? 🙂
Apple should hire him back.
Apple is held differently, I suspect, if it is a good thing I do not know.
And why should it apply to Tesla? Lattner hadn’t spearheaded a new core technology there. They were hoping he would. He’s apparently not going to, so he’s moving on. Whereas at Apple, fears were that the critical Swift technology might stall without him.
My favorite reply to his tweet was from Rich Siegel at Bare Bones Software: “How do you feel about text editors? ?”
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It seems that within the car industry the answer might be a resounding, Yes.
I listen to the Autoline podcasts, and the negative comments about Tesla, from the hosts and industry guests, week after week very much reminds me of how Apple’s perceived.
Why would it be doom to Apple, when Lattner himself said those working under him were the torchbearers of Swift? (Plus Swift is so far in its development and popularity that losing one man can’t stop it.)
This was countered by the Apple critics by saying the departure was a sign of the broken culture at Apple. Likewise how is it not a sign of the broken culture at Tesla?
Oh because Elon Musk.
First, you’re the only one using the word doom — and boy you just seem married to it. Second, surely your not so insensate that you can’t see the difference in the situation. In leaving Tesla, he leaves a company where nothing there was of his creation. At worst, Tesla wasted some money and Lattner wasted some time. Apple on the other hand had some core technologies that he created. He tells us they’re in good hands, but he’s a nice guy and might just be saying that. Whether you think that’s the case or not (and unless you’re an insider, your opinion is arbitrary flag waving anyway), you should at least admit the two cases aren’t comparable at all, and it’s nothing to do with “Oh because Elon Musk.”
Do you get the impression that this is at all the sort of reaction that Apple got from phone manufacturers in 2007?
Maybe the negative press and commentary Apple and Tesla receive is a reaction to a handful of fairly unusual qualities the two companies have in common?
Apple and Tesla’s messaging, leadership, and the products that are a result of these activities seem to drive critics nuts.
It really bothers their critics that both companies conduct themselves in a highly independent fashion, not looking to their respective industry, or their best-matched competition, for cues on how to proceed from one product introduction to the next (which both seem to have mastered).
Could it be the combination of being an outlier that insists on excellence, regardless of the headwinds, that causes so much frustration as both of these companies succeed?
That’s certainly what the situation sounds like to me. Without having heard any of the specific criticisms of Tesla on Autoline, I’d venture the majority of them are being made by people who feel threatened by technology that could upend their ecosystems.
What are you hearing from these people? How valid is any of what they’re saying?