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by zaptrem 1865 days ago
Do you have a source on the Roadster issue? Per Wikipedia:

> Musk took an active role within the company and oversaw Roadster product design at a detailed level, but was not deeply involved in day-to-day business operations.[12] Eberhard acknowledged that Musk was the person who insisted from the beginning on a carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer body and that Musk led design of components ranging from the power electronics module to the headlamps and other styling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.

Do you have a source on your company founding point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

I don’t have time to keep going through this, but even the tone of your whole post is extremely smarmy/troll-like. Usually discourse here is a little more polite.

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"However, it is wrongly assumed that Musk was behind the idea of Tesla Motors and electric vehicles. That credit belongs to Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning who originally started the company in 2003 and Musk's recent news prompted one user to tweet, "I still find it darkly amusing that the actual creator of a company named after Nikola Tesla is constantly erased from history, with all credit being given to some rich bully instead."

https://meaww.com/elon-musk-tesla-cofounder-lawsuit-settleme...

Yes, we all know Tesla was founded shortly before Musk invested. That doesn’t tell us anything about the design of the Roadster (or Musk’s other companies).

I’m sure millions of people had the idea of building an electric car before Eberhardt and Tarpenning, but as the quote goes “ideas without execution don't matter; execution matters.”