
It was the fall of 2022 when employees at Elon Musk’s Boring Company began to notice Steve Davis wasn’t around.
Davis, the president of the tunnel-digging startup, had stopped showing up at the R&D facility in Bastrop, Texas, and at the project sites in Las Vegas he was known to frequent. It’s not as if you could miss him when he was around: Davis was a hard-driving and seemingly tireless boss.