cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/6002282
He revealed the secrets !
16 points
Seriously. If Elon shut down Tesla tomorrow all these engineers would be building electric cars at other companies.
1 point
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.
