no.. 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

no.. 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.