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Tesla Hires Apple Director of Product Design Matt Casebolt

Posted January 11, 2017 at 7:37pm by iClarified · 12464 views
Tesla has hired away another key employee from Apple.

Just a day ago we discovered that Tesla nabbed Chris Lattner to lead its Autopilot engineering team. Today, we learn that Matt Casebolt, a key designer behind the MacBook Air, Mac Pro, and MacBook Pro with TouchBar is also leaving Apple for Tesla.

Casebolt is now the Sr. Director of Engineering, Closures & Mechanisms at Tesla. His LinkedIn profile indicates he started Tesla in December 2016.

Apple and Tesla are engaged in a bit of a poaching war with each company trying to recruit talented employees from the other.

Read More [via 9to5Mac]