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It sounds like he was an influential early investor, but the situation you've described isn't what I would typically think of as "founding" a company. I'm surel

It sounds like he was an influential early investor, but the situation you've described isn't what I would typically think of as "founding" a company. I'm surely not alone in this, thus the present debate. This isn't to diminish Musk's huge influence either; but folks tend not to love when the meanings of words are changed for PR.

ALittleLight 3y ago
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- kingboss 3y ago
  Musk was not a founder. He might have been an early investor but he didn't found the company. Stop lying with your fucking propaganda. I hope Musk bought you a pony for your bullshit. You are a musk shill. Stop trying to rewrite history you shill.
  - ALittleLight 3y ago
    Musk is a founder in literally every sense of the word. He joined the company early, was a key investor, designed early products, and had a major leadership role (chairman of the board and then CEO) - from the start. In addition, the matter has been adjudicated in a court of law - Musk is a founder. The company Tesla recognizes him as a founder. Against the overwhelming and undisputed evidence and common sense you have only childish insults. You don't even try to make your case. Sad, but at least you know you're wrong.
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  - dang 3y ago
    You can't attack fellow users like this on HN. I've banned the account. No one is saying you owe $billionaire better but you certainly owe this community much better if you're participating here. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- dang 3y ago
  Attacking other users like this on HN is completely unacceptable. If you do it again we will ban you. I'm not going to ban you right now because when I looked through your recent history I didn't see a lot of other comments breaking the site guidelines. That is the difference between your account and the other account, which I did ban.* Please avoid flamewar comments in the future generally, as well. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We've had to warn you about this at least once before. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. * Lest anyone is worried, that difference has nothing to do with agreeing more with one user than the other—we couldn't care less about this flamewar topic. It has only to do with the difference in comment histories.

ALittleLight 3y ago

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kingboss 3y ago
Musk was not a founder. He might have been an early investor but he didn't found the company. Stop lying with your fucking propaganda. I hope Musk bought you a pony for your bullshit. You are a musk shill. Stop trying to rewrite history you shill.
- ALittleLight 3y ago
  Musk is a founder in literally every sense of the word. He joined the company early, was a key investor, designed early products, and had a major leadership role (chairman of the board and then CEO) - from the start. In addition, the matter has been adjudicated in a court of law - Musk is a founder. The company Tesla recognizes him as a founder. Against the overwhelming and undisputed evidence and common sense you have only childish insults. You don't even try to make your case. Sad, but at least you know you're wrong.
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- dang 3y ago
  You can't attack fellow users like this on HN. I've banned the account. No one is saying you owe $billionaire better but you certainly owe this community much better if you're participating here. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
dang 3y ago
Attacking other users like this on HN is completely unacceptable. If you do it again we will ban you. I'm not going to ban you right now because when I looked through your recent history I didn't see a lot of other comments breaking the site guidelines. That is the difference between your account and the other account, which I did ban.* Please avoid flamewar comments in the future generally, as well. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We've had to warn you about this at least once before. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. * Lest anyone is worried, that difference has nothing to do with agreeing more with one user than the other—we couldn't care less about this flamewar topic. It has only to do with the difference in comment histories.