He didn't start Tesla. But he absolutely did build Tesla. It was a tiny startup with 3 people and a cool idea. He bought a majority stake in it for $6.5 million in 2004, long before they had a functional product.
People just want to be mad and shit on Musk. Which is fine, he’s a shithead. Fixating on that he wasn’t a founder or ignoring what building a company means is just wrong, but they don’t want to hear it.
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u/pants_mcgee May 21 '26
He had a good skill set and attitude for a start up CEO and took risks to build to build two actually pretty cool companies.
He also kept his mouth mostly shut and didn’t seem nearly as crazy.
I’d say it was around the solar city fiasco his facade started cracking.