East Bay real estate startup poaches from Tesla amid rapid growth

Oakland-based Roofstock, which helps investors buy single-family rentals across the country without ever seeing them firsthand, has hired a former Tesla leader as its vice president of operations.

Fiona Taylor will oversee the firm’s rapid growth and hiring at both the Oakland headquarters and a Dallas office, which it established last summer with the purchase of Dallas-based Streetlane PM to provide property management services to institutional investors.

“We’re at an inflection point in…