Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk stated on Sunday he wished he had by no means met Martin Eberhard, one of many founders and the primary CEO of the electrical car firm now led by the world’s richest man.
What Occurred: Musk stated Eberhard is “true poison,” in response to a thread on Twitter, including the true credit score for creating Tesla goes to him and one other co-founder JB Straubel, who now runs a battery recycling startup referred to as Redwood Supplies.
A Twitter submit identified how Musk owns important stakes in Tesla and Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) and that in each instances, he got here in as a “non-founder investor” who then leads by making “a bunch of product-oriented claims on the web.”
The submit secured a response from one other consumer in protection of Musk, saying “there could be no Tesla” with out the billionaire entrepreneur and the corporate Eberhard and Straubel based would’ve by no means develop into what it’s at present.
The one individuals who go the but-for take a look at for creating what individuals know as Tesla are JB & me. Want I’d by no means met Eberhard. He’s pure poison.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022
See Additionally: Musk On Tesla Founder Martin Eberhard: ‘He Is Actually The Worst Particular person I’ve Ever Labored With’
Why It Issues: Musk and Eberhard have been publicly essential of one another prior to now. The billionaire entrepreneur has stated Eberhard “is actually the worst particular person I’ve ever labored with.”
Eberhard based Tesla in 2003 with Marc Tarpenning, with Musk as chairman, and served as its CEO till 2007.
“When Eberhard was fired from the Tesla CEO function in mid-2007 for offering false data to me [and] the board, nobody left with him. That claims all of it,” Musk wrote on Twitter in Oct. 2020.
Musk was not too long ago named to Twitter’s board after he not too long ago revealed a 9.12% lively stake within the microblogging firm.
Value Motion: Tesla inventory closed 3% decrease at $1,025.49 a share on Friday.
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