cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/6002282
He revealed the secrets !
Seriously. If Elon shut down Tesla tomorrow all these engineers would be building electric cars at other companies.
Does (or does not) he get the credit for committing the fraud that kept Tesla in business long enough to popularize* electric cars that there are other companies at which to build them?
Aforementioned fraud:
(When searching, found apparently jurors in 2023 disagreed with my assessment, so please take with grain of salt.)
*I say “popularize” given:
Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by [not Elon! but] Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors.
He’s a piece of shit but he restarted the Space Race that was literally dying, push the industry into electric cars when none of them were willing to do it. His actual products may be garbage but it doesn’t stop that it started the movements that needed to happen in the industry.
To say that he contributed nothing at all is unfortunately false as much as I may hate the man
