The untold story of Tesla’s unlucky co-founders and how they missed the billionaire bus
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And this isn’t even right, 2 people founded Tesla the other 3 are investors…

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Excuse me, but one of the conditions of Elon’s investment was that they pretend he was a founder and refer to him as such!

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It wasn’t a condition of his initial investment, but rather of a lawsuit settlement five years later, in 2009 (six years after Eberhard and Tarpenning actually founded it).

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