Tesla founders

The stupidest part is he filed a lawsuit so he could legally call himself a founder of Tesla.

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/elon-musk-wanted-tesla-co-founder-badly-took-lawsuit-make-legal-paper/

That shouldn't even be legal.

How the fuck does that work? You can't just change the facts of what happened through a legal proceedings. Rich folks like musk live in alien world

What the hell does this have to do with antiwork?

It's an example of a billionaire boss taking all the credit for others work...
- Yup, you nailed it. Doing the work but not getting anything in return except a pay check.
Probably just because it's musk bashing
- any musk bashing is inherently anti-work
We want to be acknowledged for our accomplishments and not have the credit go to our current/ eventual boss. It's just a metaphor.
But also, yeah, Musk is a dingle berry.
I doubt those guys have to work anymore

The longer I live, the more often I learn that so called self-made geniuses like Bill Gates didn't even do the thing they're known for, and none of them did any of it alone.

Bill Gates at least can code. His contributions to Microsoft were mostly being a cutthroat businessman, but he can code, and did, in particular the MS Basic runtime. It's all fuzzy but I'd put him at that stage where you can code, but look at your colleagues and realise that you probably shouldn't. The not so fabled 1x developer. Not entirely rarely well-suited both as manager and QA because they understand enough to be helpful but, ego permitting, seeing they have no talent, don't get their creative instincts tied up with actually writing code.
Steve Jobs, OTOH...
- Bill Gates main contribution was having is mommy get him a deal to provide an OS to IBM.
  Gates didn’t have an OS, so he bought DOS from another company and repackaged it as his own to licensed it to IBM.
- Steve Jobs main claim was that visual design and walling people into marriage of software + hardware as a package was important. And based on the loyalty, profits, he seemed to have focused on the right thing.
  As quick as Apple could, they went away from the kit Apple I into expensive unique-looking systems. The Lisa being US$9,995 (equivalent to well over $30,000 in 2023)... NeXT was pretty much the same high-end vision.
  Bill Gates bailing out Apple so there could be two main companies like Pepsi and Coke, I really don't get why people don't criticize that. Microsoft was ahead in the Smartphone area long before the iPhone, if they had not bailed out Apple...
- Elon Musk can also code - but I don't know if he was actually any good. But supposedly he was quite fast and hardworking back when he worked on Zip2 (and perhaps also PayPal). But it was very likely spaghetti code.
This applies to pretty much every group, like the Nobel Prize.
I guess Satoru Iwara might be an exception where he just fixed struggling games like Earthbound by himself 😄
Listen to the behind the bastards podcast episode on him. The go into some depth on how there's really no such thing as a "self made billionaire".

I thought Elon Musk was the founder of Tesla.

He'd sure like you to think so.
You shouldn’t be downvoted for thinking this. Many people do which is why this post exists to begin with.
He sued them in order to be able to call himself that.
But no matter how much money he throws at it, he can't change a definition.
- Well, that’s not true.
  Lots of words have changed definition fairly recently.
Wait until you find out that Tim Apple didn’t found Apple!
- Worth noting that Steve Jobs didn't really found Apple either but rather used his friend to do all the leg work and made a brand out of that.
  It's actually a really sad origin story if you look into it.
Elon Musk is a bawbag

Heroes for what reason?
- Tesla is the Prius of electric cars. It made them popular enough that EVs went mainstream.
Well there's some sort of poetry in naming their company and then going largely unknown.

Hey I appreciate your post.

I still blocked enoughmuskspam since it was ironically muskspam

Oh, I thought the point of enoughmuskspam was to funnel all the muskspam into it, so that you could block one community and be set.

Elon the Musky Husky did not found Tesla He signed a contract letting him say he did in advertising.

Iirc from the biography about him by Ashlee Vance, he also did not found SpaceX.

Here's a presentation from Tarpenning on Tesla's founding. I was seriously impressed.

https://youtu.be/JW95LCkxlb4

Hmmm I'm suspicious of this.

I mean, they both claim in this picture that the have a qualification in "Bullshit" computer science

Sus if you ask me

The only thing Musk did for Tesla was give these 2 guys $ from his PayPal buy out, in which Elon fucked everyone else involved too
Elon is a POS
- Elon is a lot of things but Tesla wouldn't have taken off with just these two. Elon is just the Steve Jobs of Tesla...and no amount of hate for the guy is going to change that. These two had no plans to mass market the car or build a company from it.
- Read my comment again, but this time as if it had one of those /s things the yanks are so reliant on
He he he. This tickled me just right.
- Thank you. Apparently lots of people have the reading comprehension of toddlers 😂

They ought have chosen another name

Like "X"?
Musky

This post is absolutely stupid, but keeps getting reposted because people have a hate boner for Elon Musk.

Tesla started in July 2003, Elon invested $6.5 Million in February 2004. That makes him a co-founder. Their first electric car was released in 2008 with Elon as CEO.(1)

You don't get a startup to the seventh most valuable company by being lazy or lucky.(2)

Wow, if only we had a name for someone that invests in a company after it is founded.
- We do. Principal investors are often listed as cofounders in startups, if they take a significant role in company operations from early in the company lifespan
  https://foundersnetwork.com/blog/founder-vs-cofounder/
  Cofounder isn't a title. It's a role.
  I know this gets in the way of easy dunking, but reality is often disappointing.
- Yes an investor. Yet, Elon became the largest shareholder when he did invest and actively helped in development/decision-making of the first car. Take off your shit tinted glasses for a second and be rational.
  He became chairman in 2004 are you saying that's after Tesla was widely successful? When he won the Global Green for the roadster are you saying some random investor would get that?
Boots are for feet, not for licking.
- I'm sorry I'm a rational person who doesn't feel the need to constantly mention the person I dislike.
Luck is absolutely a factor.
- How so? Was it producing the first mainstream electric car? Was it because that car traveled 200+mi? Was it because they created one of the quickest cars in the world? Was it because they made a massive charging network?
  Do help me.
Thank you for this post. Musk might be a piece of shit but you don't build/grow several game changing companies by 'just funding' while being incompetent.