Rj scarange, the ceo and founder of rivien, has gotten a lot of support from the eevee community in the past, after graduating, from mit with a phd in mechanical engineering, rj worked on rivien for 10 years before releasing his electric vehicle to the public, while elon musk Enjoys competition he certainly doesn't support ip theft, which is where riven comes into play in this video. I'm going to show you the exact details of rivian's illegal plan to take on tesla and how the automaker was caught red-handed if you're new to the channel. Please consider subscribing for more content like this and let's get right into it in order to steal tesla's trade secrets, rivian attempted to learn tesla's employees with money and get those employees to obtain information. So far, tesla has caught four former employees, stealing tesla's private engineering information.

These employees are tammy, pascal, a former senior manager at tesla for leadership, recruiting kim wong a former field recruiter at tesla jessica, siren, a former environmental health and safety manager at tesla and carrington bradley, a former manager of tesla supercharging network. Now, before we assume those employees are guilty, let's actually take a look at the evidence and decide for ourselves in the lawsuit filed by tesla, tesla stated that tesla investigators discovered the misappropriation and interviewed pasquel by phone on july 6, 2020. pascal falsely denied taking any documents From tesla, when pressed, she continued her denial claiming to only have taken personal documents only after investigators confronted her with specific documents she had taken pascal finally confessed to taking the confidential and proprietary documents. Essentially, what this means is that before tami pascal, a previous senior manager at tesla for leadership recruiting left to join rivian, she downloaded private documents about mass recruiting for production and sales, along with important pay scale documents to her personal laptop.

These documents include candidate lists, tesla, recruiting organizational charts, information about tesla recruiters companies from which tesla sources, candidates and additional tesla forms and templates. Now the story for how pascal got exposed stealing tesla's information is quite hilarious when asked to work with one of the tesla investigators to delete tesla documents from her personal cloud storage. Pascal declined, claiming she didn't have access to a computer at a residence. In fact, as tesla later learned, pascal still had possession of her tesla laptop and her husband is an i.t professional.

So after pascal joined rivian, she kept her tesla laptop so that her husband could help her steal tesla's documents, just by keeping tesla's laptop pascal already made the case extremely suspicious. After a back and forth, pascal shared the screen of her phone and claimed she had already deleted the documents throughout this process, however, pascal stopped screen sharing several times preventing tesla investigators from seeing what she was doing when she did. Numerous files were briefly visible to tesla investigators with the screen share, but pascal abruptly ended the session and said all the remaining files were personal. That move right.

There was beyond careless. Pascal went on a zoom call with tesla investigators kept on stopping her screen, share and opening back up and then later agreed to searching up the keyword tesla, which revealed many of the confidential documents stolen. If you truly want to steal intellectual property, which is obviously not smart in the first place at least be intelligent, when doing it, pascal may be confirmed to be guilty of stealing private intellectual property, but it still may seem like pascal, is taking the documents for herself. Rather than for rivien, this is where a woman named kim wong comes into play, while pascal isn't confirmed to be directed by rivian tesla claims that they have evidence showing that a different employee was instructed by rivien to steal intellectual property.

This employee is kim wong, who is formerly a field recruiter at tesla. Earlier this year, wong was contacted by vince durian at rivien, who had been her manager when he was at tesla before wong left tesla. During instructed her. That riven did not have the recruiting templates structures, formulas or documents that would be needed for rivien's recruitment efforts on july 7, 2020 after wang's conversation with durin and the same day that wong received an update on her background check by rivian.

She sent at least 16 highly confidential and trade secret, recruiting documents from tesla's network to her gmail account the very types of documents that duron had instructed her that rivien needed similar to the previous case. It seems quite obvious that vince tanner duran purposely stole tesla's intellectual property after joining rivian as a senior manager of talent, acquisition, vince told wang to steal 16 confidential, recruiting documents from tesla, which were the exact same documents that wang ended up. Stealing these confidential documents were about tesla's, recruiting strategies which included templates and guides to help recruit talented engineers. Some documents included highly sensitive trade secret compensation and bonus information for tesla sales personnel for use at rivien, including base pay rates, target bonuses, new higher equity awards and incentive based compensation numbers.

For example, the tesla advisor overview document that she took had salary rates, equity grants, bonus, tiers and fluctuations darin for various positions and performance levels. The fact that huang stole plenty of confidential documents without expecting to be caught is so foolish. Given the information in tesla's lawsuit. It's quite obvious that wang is guilty of ip theft and will have to see where the lawsuit settles at jessica, sieren, a former environmental health and safety manager at tesla was caught red-handed after stealing confidential engineering documents, as an ehs manager, sieren shouldn't even be touching.

Tesla's engineering data on march 24th, 2020 cyrin used her tesla issued laptop to access several confidential and proprietary documents from the ehs file share and other locations on the tesla network. Sirian then sent the documents to her personal gmail account and afterwards tried to steal them from her desktop computer. These documents consisted of highly sensitive trade, secret, confidential and proprietary engineering information about manufacturing project management control, specifications for manufacturing equipment specifications regarding manufacturing, robotics and manufacturing equipment requirements. These documents would be used rarely if at all, by syrian as a manager of environmental, health and safety.

Yet she exported them shortly after accepting her offer at rivien. The funny thing about jessica siren is that, after being pressed by tesla investigators, sieren admitted to sending only one confidential document to herself and claimed no knowledge of the rest. To claim that you only stole one document and didn't steal the others, even though you sent all of them to your personal gmail, is not only hilarious but insanely dumb on a larger scope. The case of jessica siren truly shows how desperate rivien is to start selling its vehicles.

Rivian couldn't even learn in a tesla engineer who was working on the confidential projects that had the information it needed. Instead, rivien had to instruct a former ehs manager to steal data from a project she never even touched or seen before the case of jessica sieren truly undermines any of the engineering feats riven ceo, rj scarange has achieved up to this point. For years, tesla has dominated the market for electric vehicles, not just by selling superior vehicles, but also by having a wide supercharging network. On the other hand, rivien's charging network is on a laughable scale.

This is where karentine bradley comes into play. Carrington used to work as tesla as a manager for his charging network before joining rivian on march 20th, 2020 as a senior manager for charging development on march 19, 2020. The day before he left tesla to go to rivien bradley forwarded to his personal email, address a list of highly curated select group of high-level tesla employees, who are experts in the development and management of charging networks. Precisely the type of team rivian needs to deploy its own charging network.

The information would allow rivien to target for recruitment the members of that group, which is responsible for the selection, development and management of tesla's global supercharger network. Unlike the other cases, carrington sent to himself a confidential document of the tesla supercharging experts so that it would be easier for rivien to poach tesla employees. After obtaining this list, carrington began recruiting these experts to rivien tesla stated in its lawsuit that soon after bradley began, working for rivian members of the select group were recruited by rivien tammy, pasquale, kim wong, jessica, siren and carrington. Bradley are the four defendants that tesla has caught red-handed.

However, the truth is that many other rivian employees likely got away with ip theft. Tesla stated that its continuing investigation has revealed information showing that at least two other employees likely took trade secret, confidential and proprietary information about tesla, as they were, leaving to go to rivien to top it off. About 70 tesla employees joined rivien directly from tesla, with 22 of those leaving in the last four months. We don't know how many of these tesla employees leaked confidential documents, as those that are remaining were likely smart enough not to leave a blatantly obvious trail of evidence.

Like the others did, living has responded to these allegations in what seems like a pr stunt after electric contacted rivien about the matter. Reviewing stated we admire tesla for its leadership in resetting expectations of what an electric car can be. This suits allegations our baseless and run counter to rivien's culture ethos and corporate policies. Tesla has evidence backing up its allegations against rivien, whereas rivien just claims that the lawsuit is wrong.

This comes off as incredibly suspicious and, without a doubt, i'll have to side with tesla on the lawsuit because of the overwhelming evidence provided against rivian. Now the fact that rivien has been stealing intellectual property from tesla completely loses my respect for the automaker. Encouraging competition has always been an activity elon musk enjoys, but when it comes to ip theft, this is certainly taking it too far. The list of companies that have been accused of stealing tesla's intellectual property now includes fisker, automotive, zoox, x-ping motors and rivian.

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