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I don't think so, I think it's an important point, and he thinks it's an important point because he tried to pretend he did found Tesla by claiming that title officially when he bought it, which I find duplicitous and underhand, something of a pattern with Elon Musk in his business dealings.

He did a great job building that company up, but is now ruining it with a series of really bad decisions and appears to operate more on hype than tangible progress nowadays.

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I really don't see the difference between buying a garage startup without a single product and a few months after its creation (total paid: $6.5 million, peanuts that show that it was basically an empty box) and actually founding it yourself. In any case, absolutely everything Tesla has been in the past 20 years is due to Elon Musk and not to the supposed "founders".

Musk wants to be called founder and he's absolutely right, as he got in when there was still nothing. Not that I care, but if you want to criticise Musk there plenty of real stuff to do it. This one is at the level of "he inherited his money".