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> It takes someone naive and optimistic enough to try something different. You mean Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, right?

• Rover222 2mo ago
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• jvwww 2mo ago
  Tesla would be nothing without Musk. That doesn't take away from Eberhard and Tarpenning; they started the company after all and are great engineers. But it would be nothing without Musk.
  • sockaddr 2mo ago
    And it would be nothing without Eberhard and Tarpenning
  • dgellow 2mo ago
    The people who tried something different and did the work on batteries weren’t Musk. That’s the comment I was responding to. Musk has been a good showman though, and he seems to be a genius financial engineer with a cult following
    • inemesitaffia 2mo ago
      That's Straubel, sorry