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Based on Wikipedia it was founded in the Czech Republic by three Russians in 2000 which makes it a Czech company just as much as Tesla is an American company (r
by marcinzm 6y ago
Based on Wikipedia it was founded in the Czech Republic by three Russians in 2000 which makes it a Czech company just as much as Tesla is an American company (rather than South African).
edit: Fixed founding date, coffee hasn't kicked in yet
- mcv 6y agoThey weren't founded in 2010, but in 2000. I was a bit confused for a moment, because I distinctly remember using either IntelliJ or RubyMine in 2008. I had no idea they were a Czech company with Russian founders though. Good to hear not everything comes from SV.
- marcinzm 6y agoOoops, fixed, thanks.
- tailsdog 6y agoAs I understood it Tesla was founded by Americans and later Musk bought in.
- peteretep 6y ago> Tesla was founded (as Tesla Motors) on July 1, 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California ... A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five (Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk and Straubel) to call themselves co-founders
- usrusr 6y agoWell, SpaceX isn't exactly considered "Africa's Space Programme" either. (But Jetbrains is surely far more Russian than SpaceX is South African)
- FpUser 6y ago>"...Tesla is an American company (rather than South African)" Difference being that Tesla does not keep their core team in South Africa.