Hilariously that didn't disprove our point though. Elon took the credit instead of the engineers behind it. The company should've been named Edison instead of Tesla.
I hate the guy, but this is factually untrue. There was a court case about it... the original founders sued to get him to stop saying that, but they settled and the settlement agreement included him being able to say "co-founder". So yes, he's legally a co-founder now. The terms of agreement aren't public beyond that, but safe to assume the OG founders got something out of it. And honestly, he was employee #3... the first 2 being the OG founders. The company had no buildings, no funding, no products, no designs, nothing... just an idea of what they wanted to do, and they would not have survived without him pouring basically all his own money into it. It's not like he came in when the Model S was launched and claimed he founded it.
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u/Alexfan_collector163 5h ago edited 5h ago
Hilariously that didn't disprove our point though. Elon took the credit instead of the engineers behind it. The company should've been named Edison instead of Tesla.