Please don’t erase Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning out of Tesla’s history. They were the ones with that idea of making EVs sexy and then Elon came along and slowly ‘manoeuvred’ them out. He wanted to be known as the founder.
He”s a good marketer, but not a good ideas person or leader.
Look at the cyber truck, hyperloop, twitter and his crazy and damaging rants on twitter.
> Please don’t erase Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning out of Tesla’s history. They were the ones with that idea of making EVs sexy and then Elon came along and slowly ‘manoeuvred’ them out. He wanted to be known as the founder.
All the history is captured on Wikipedia including such bits as Musk funding $6.5m of Tesla’s initial $7.5m series A round.
He”s a good marketer, but not a good ideas person or leader.
Look at the cyber truck, hyperloop, twitter and his crazy and damaging rants on twitter.