Elon Musk Didn’t Start Tesla So Who Actually Founded It? (moztako.me)

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Tesla founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning started the company before Elon Musk joined. Discover how Tesla evolved and why Musk became its most famous co-founder.

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[-] jefmz@fedia.io 1 points 8 hours ago

But saying that his role in Tesla’s creation is simply alie is also an oversimplification. Tesla itself has historically described Musk and JB Straubel as part of a broader founding team, and Tesla’s current filings describe Musk as “one of our founders

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