Nikola’s founder and executive chairman Trevor Milton steps down over short-seller accusations — Transcript
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- 0:00nicholas founder and executive chairman
- 0:02trevor milton steps down over short
- 0:04seller accusations
- 0:06the electric vehicle maker nicola has
- 0:08just lost its executive chairman trevor
- 0:11milton
- 0:12milton founded the company back in 2014
- 0:14and has since seen it grow into a
- 0:16billion dollar behemoth that its
- 0:18investors and fans hope could one day
- 0:20rival tesla but earlier this month the
- 0:23company was accused by hindenburg
- 0:25research a short seller firm of being an
- 0:27intricate fraud build on dozens of lives
- 0:30among the lies hindenburg alleges are
- 0:32that milton presented a prototype truck
- 0:34as being closer to production ready than
- 0:37it was and that the founder
- 0:38mischaracterized a business deal being
- 0:40worth more than it actually was report
- 0:43cnn business
- 0:44trevor milton september 21st 2020 milton
- 0:49for his part has strongly denied the
- 0:51claims
- 0:52i intend to defend myself against false
- 0:54accusations leveled against me by
- 0:56outside detractors
- 0:58nikola also published a separate
- 1:00statement saying milton proposed to
- 1:02voluntarily step aside and announce that
- 1:04stephen gursky former vice chairman of
- 1:07general motors has been appointed the
- 1:09chairman of the board
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