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"""It was as a direct response to this fiasco that Silicon Valley engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla Motors in 2003.""" What about Mus
by kriro 11y ago
"""It was as a direct response to this fiasco that Silicon Valley engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla Motors in 2003."""
What about Musk, Straubel and Wright? Wasn't this settled in court (Eberhard withdrew)?
- rgbrenner 11y agono.. the article is right: http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-1... those two were best friends and worked on tesla for quite a while before Wright (their neighbor) joined the company as VP, and quit shortly after to start his own company WrightSpeed. Musk came along about a year after to lead the series A. Straubel was actually working on his own startup called Volacom when Tesla was founded.. Musk brought him on board later the same year.