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- Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard said the carmaker's company culture might be "nicer" if he'd stayed.
- Eberhard was ousted as CEO in 2007 and hasn't been involved with the company since.
- He said he's not into "random firings," a practice Musk has denied engaging in in the past.
Martin Eberhard, one of Tesla's original founders, said the carmaker would look different today if he was still at its helm — specifically, there would be fewer "random firings."
"I'm a believer of treating employees with respect and I'm not into random firings and things like that," Eberhard told Insider in an interview. "So maybe the culture inside the company would have been a little bit nicer."