Musk and JB were walking to AC Peopulsion about creating a car company based on their tech. The CEO of AC Peopulsion told them another valley company had just s

Musk and JB were walking to AC Peopulsion about creating a car company based on their tech. The CEO of AC Peopulsion told them another valley company had just started with the same plan. Tesla found no investors and were a half dead garage company. Musk deciding to finance Tesla and have JB be the CTO is quite a bit different then just buying in. The difficulty in building an EV company was never the initial prototpye as anybody who has studied this space knows. Tesla was an utter shitshow until Musk took over the CEO and the company since then has been incredibly successful. Its baffling that look at that and then dismiss it because he didnt start the company in a garage. And your history of SpaceX is even worse. i don't even know where you got that nonsense. You timeline is off byany years at least. The DoD was looking at responsive launch at the time and that was far more relevant then NASA. But the DoD outside of a little student sat didn't book any flights. Invention is just a strange term, are we only consider the guy by himself sits in a lab and figures out some new thing an inventor? Musk is not that. But that doesn't make what he did less impressive. The companies he has built, and has lead are certaintly innovative.