> if the founder wasn't so polarizing I wanted to nitpick on calling Elon Musk a founder, as Tesla was originally founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpennin

> if the founder wasn't so polarizing I wanted to nitpick on calling Elon Musk a founder, as Tesla was originally founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in July 2003. But as I did my research, I learnt, that he has now legally the status of a co-founder after a settlement. It is up to the reader to think about that. So to keep my nitpick, I can only say the quoted sentence is missing a "co-" prefix. :p