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Inside EV startup Fisker’s collapse: how the company crumbled under its founders’ whims


Insiders tell TechCrunch the story of how the flashy EV startup went from making big promises to struggling to survive.

Fisker employees, meanwhile, often slogged through 18-hour days to field concerns, fix problems, find the missing payments and properly document the SUVs, often going far beyond the duties typically associated with the roles they were hired to perform. A year before Henrik Fisker handed over the first 22 Ocean SUVs in the U.S., the founder and CEO made an unusual change in the auto industry: he wanted wheel spacers installed on the vehicles. Late Friday afternoon, a time window companies usually reserve for unflattering disclosures, AI startup Hugging Face said that its security team earlier this week detected “unauthorized access” to Spaces, Hugging…

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