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Why would have Elon Musk been involved? Did he actively participate in SolarCity management before the acquisition?

• gowld 7y ago
  Yes. Solar City was a Musk (nee Rive) family business from the start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity#History > SolarCity was founded in 2006 by brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive, based on a suggestion for a solar company concept by their cousin, Elon Musk, who is the chairman and helped start the company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Rive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Rive > Rive is a cousin of SolarCity investor and entrepreneur Elon Musk, as their mothers are twins (That means that Rive and Musk are genetically half-siblings.)
  • csours 7y ago
    > (That means that Rive and Musk are genetically half-siblings.) Apropos of nothing, I'm now imagining a world with forms of address based on the natural logarithm of shared genetic material.
    • golergka 7y ago
      I come from an old Jewish family that's supposed to come King David, and I recently met a girl who comes from another family like that (rabbinical sources describe a dozen or so families with reasonable claims to Davidic lineage). We used to joke that we're longest removed siblings ever, and now I'm curious about what that natural logarithm would actually look like.
    • jandrese 7y ago
      Isn't this roughly how people talk about their relationship with Native American tribes? They don't do the log2 math, but they're happy to hit you with the fraction.
      • somesortofsystm 7y ago
        Certainly, First Nation People of Australia had a language of their own for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_kinship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_kinship
      • roywiggins 7y ago
        You're probably thinking of "blood quantum." It's... complicated. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/09/583987261/so-what-exactly-is-blood-quantum https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/09/583987261...
    • irrational 7y ago
      There is an app that will tell you and another person with the same app how closely related you are and will show the ancestry chain between the two of you. It turns out the my wife and I are 10th cousins (common great-whatever grandparents in the 1600s). I started calling her my cousin-wife, but she didn't think it was funny, so I had to stop ;-)
      • denni9th 7y ago
        What is the app called?
      • zwily 7y ago
        10th cousin is basically “not related”. That same app (Relative Finder) says that Obama is my 10th cousin.
  • ajross 7y ago
    Wait wait, the evidence for "Musk was personally involved" was "his cousin did it"? I mean, it's hard to tell whether there's any wrongdoing here to allege at all, honestly. But to the extent there is: I think the upthread question is still unanswered. What does this have to do with Tesla?
    • mattkrause 7y ago
      Well, that and he (apparently) suggested it to them. I think the cousin thing is just explaining why they were interacting at all.