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He revealed the secrets ! (jlai.lu)
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He revealed the secrets !

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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Seriously. If Elon shut down Tesla tomorrow all these engineers would be building electric cars at other companies.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Does (or does not) he get the credit for committing the fraud that kept Tesla in business long enough to popularize* electric cars that there are other companies at which to build them?

    Aforementioned fraud:

    (When searching, found apparently jurors in 2023 disagreed with my assessment, so please take with grain of salt.)

    *I say “popularize” given:

    Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by [not Elon! but] Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors.

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