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Great storytelling, but it concludes rather abruptly. An argument of analogy and anecdote. Further, Musk is not the founder of Tesla, Martin Eberhard and Marc T
by bagrow 8y ago
Great storytelling, but it concludes rather abruptly. An argument of analogy and anecdote. Further, Musk is not the founder of Tesla, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are.
- Mononokay 8y agoWikipedia has five people listed, and says that while it was registered by those two, they consider the rest as co-founders. Now, Wikipedia isn't the greatest source, but it seems to be consistent with most media coverage.
- elvirs 8y agoin the Elon Musk book its mostly Martin Eberhard who was obsessed and created prototype of electric vehicle and started a company. Musk joined as an investor and then changed the company's direction
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- flyingcircus3 8y agoWell this is an advertisement for Harvard Business School, and it's namesake. I can do the same for my Alma Mater, Purdue University. First CS department in the US. More astronauts than any other university. Some of the greatest names in aviation history: Armstrong, Cernan, Sullenberger, etc. Tuition has been frozen for the last seven years, and they still print money. Students from every nation on Earth. It turns out, if you can last 150 years, good stuff eventually happens. If you can last 400 years, triply so.
- shanghaiaway 8y agoHBR articles are not advertisements for HBR. Sloan went to MIT.
- flyingcircus3 8y agoMy mistake. You know Boston, and it's odd layout. After a while those multi-billion dollar endowments kind of run together.
- ryanmarsh 8y agoFlying circus indeed