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Musk was not the founder of Tesla nor the originator of the Roadster-buzz business model, but point taken.

• shkkmo 5y ago
  Musk was closely involved with the design of the Roadster and is officially a co-founder of Tesla. Do you have sources regarding who did develope the Roadster-buzz business model?
  • dundarious 5y ago
    Here the founders describe how their Roadster concept was integral to their pitch to Musk to become a Series A investor. https://youtu.be/eblPwXFb7TE https://youtu.be/eblPwXFb7TE
    • shkkmo 5y ago
      It sounds like Musk was already looking at investing in a different electric sports car company and thus it was more a case of a bunch of people having similar ideas amd working together. They also say that the buzz business model was something they sort of fell into. Edit: The other side of the story is here. I am sure both sides have bias, but given that a judge dismissed Eberhard's claim that there were only two co-founders, it the five co-founder settlement seems reasonable.
      • shkkmo 5y ago
        The link was left off my edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20090624221445/http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=73#more-73 https://web.archive.org/web/20090624221445/http://www.teslam...