I thought I remembered reading Tesla promotional materials from BEFORE Musk got on board. I didn’t think he was a co-founder.
Their earliest material was something along the lines of “Finally, an electric car from people who don’t hate cars.”
“”I didn’t think he was a co-founder.””
I was going to ask - and still will - who is the other founder?
Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning started Tesla… two engineers
Elon was a major contributor in the first round of financing.
” I didn’t think he was a co-founder.”
Elon is something like Tesla’s seventh employee and its fourth CEO.
There’s a great youtube video featuring the two founders and what their idea was when they started the company. It was not remotely as grand an idea as what Musk has made of it.