On Sunday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to longtime allegations that he “stole” Tesla from one of the company’s original founders, Martin Eberhard. In reply to a Twitter thread from user @enn_nafnlaus that details a chronological timeline of Tesla’s founding, Musk’s original investment into the startup, and Eberhard’s exit as CEO, Musk said: “When Eberhard was fired from the Tesla CEO role in mid 2007 for providing false information to me & the board, no one left with him. That says it all.”
Musk went on to say: “He plays the ‘poor inventor’ card, but was rich all along & invented nothing (as far as I know). I went down to zero cash or sellable assets in 2008/2009, had no house & had to borrow money from friends to pay rent.”
The tweet is the latest in a reputational battle between Musk and Eberhard for credit over Tesla and the men’s roles in the company. In 2008, Eberhard sued Musk, alleging that he “set out to rewrite history by falsely claiming that…
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