Tesla’s 3rd-Largest Shareholder Demands Elon Musk Exit CEO Role, Says Electric Carmaker Needs ‘Tim Cook-Like’ Leader

“Elon was the proud father,” Koguan Leo wrote on Twitter. “Tesla has grown up”

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Indonesian billionaire KoGuan Leo, the third-largest individual Tesla shareholder, has called for CEO Elon Musk to step down in favor of a “Tim Cook-like” leader now that his attention has been largely diverted to Twitter.

“Elon abandoned Tesla and Tesla has no working CEO,” Leo tweeted Dec. 14. “Tesla needs and deserves to have working full-time CEO. What Tesla BOD should do, do nothing? Elon will find how own successor under BOD independent supervision.”

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