But lest you believe Q3 really did mark a significant and lasting turnaround for Tesla, keep in mind that no group has a better grasp of a company's prospects than its executives, yet their massive exodus continues with the steady departure of multiple key accounting, production, and engineering people including, in December, the replacement of Tesla's General Counsel with a prominent securities fraud criminal defense attorney. (Read into that what you will!) Rather than listing the never-ending stream of executive departures here, please use this link to see the astounding full list. Many of these people left millions of dollars in unvested stock on the table, and one must ask why. Do they assume that stock will wind up worthless? Were they asked to do things they were "uncomfortable" doing? Or is Elon Musk just so difficult to work for that it isn't worth the millions of dollars they left behind? None of the answers to those questions are favorable to Tesla.