Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, caught spying
It all began with a leak from one of their engineers that Tesla only had $9M in the bank and that they might not be able to deliver cars. There was a big investigation, and that engineer was fired. Fine, end of story right? Nope, CEO Elon Musk hatched an ingenious plan to catch more potential leakers. He sent an email requesting signatures for a new NDA to everyone in the company, slightly altering details in each one. This basically left a “fingerprint”, and he would be able to tell who leaked what to the media. Unfortunately he didn’t tell his executive team about the plan, and the general consul forwarded his personal copy to the entire company. Of course then the cat was out of the bag, and everyone knew that he was trying to set them up. Not only that, the NDA email was leaked anyways (the consul’s version). The best part is, he began the email with “I’m a big believer in trusting employees.”
http://valleywag.gawker.com/5164035/tesla-ceo-in-digital-witch-hunt
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