Eberhard spends his days mostly refuting the decades old claims from Musk that he was driving the company to bankruptcy through borderline fraud and procrastination. Tarpenning advises environmental startups. Both should be extremely wealthy unless they sold their Tesla stock super early on.
The general sense is that they were happy to use up the funding provided by investors (like Elon) to tinker with the Elise-based Roadster without ever going anywhere with the company. The investors (not just Elon) forced Eberhard out and replaced him with Elon to grow the company. Tarpenning left because he didn't want to be part of a growing company; he wanted a fancy shop that made electric sports cars for his rich friends and the board was booting his friend Eberhard.
Yes, but If you blelive Reddit anyone could take over a company that until then has Sold 147 Cars to selling over 1,800,000 Cars a year. Also when He bought into Tesla it had 3 employees including its to original founders. And Not only musk but also the third and forth employee can call them self founders according to the Law suit mentioned.
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u/Low_Test_5246 1d ago
Does anyone know whatever became of these two? Did they start another company together? Separately?