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> Would we rather that Musk had just never founded Tesla and Space That really misses where a lot of the hate for Musk is coming from. If he had never started
by talltimtom 8y ago
> Would we rather that Musk had just never founded Tesla and Space
That really misses where a lot of the hate for Musk is coming from. If he had never started it in the first place, the shorters would not stand to win anything. They both want him to fail, but are also heavily invested in him having tried first.
Also side note. Musk didn’t found Tesla, he bought in and kicked out the real founders. The company would likely not be where it is today without Musk, but I doubt it would have failed completely, likely just be worth less and working on becoming profitable with smaller anbitions.
- smcl 8y ago> he bought in and kicked out the real founders I was curious about this so I went to the Wikipedia article... > The company was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, although the company also considers Elon Musk, JB Straubel and Ian Wright as co-founders.[1] The [1] linked article (https://www.cnet.com/news/tesla-motors-founders-now-there-are-five https://www.cnet.com/news/tesla-motors-founders-now-there-ar...) details a bizarre and complicated situation. It seems that Musk was declared to be a founder of the company retroactively as a result of a lawsuit related to the thing you described.