Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus to Rival China (bloomberg.com) 25 points by maherbeg 2y ago ↗ HN
[–] sschueller 2y ago ↗ "Co-Founder", He joined Tesla almost 1 year after Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla. [–] gabrielsroka 2y ago ↗ > A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five (Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk and Straubel) to call themselves co-founders.[13]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.> [–] metadat 2y ago ↗ This is a technicality, in the grand scheme of things.
[–] gabrielsroka 2y ago ↗ > A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five (Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk and Straubel) to call themselves co-founders.[13]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.>
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