I love how, from a technical perspective, Elon Musk is a startup founder's worst dream. You start up a company, some VC literally pushes the co-founders out of the company and takes over the reins. Is this really the person HN should be rooting for?

The VC chose the best CEO (which happened to be himself) for the company, in the best interest of the company, its employees and its shareholders. History absolves him.

The real question is, were they adequately compensated for their contributions (I've no idea myself).

> The VC chose the best CEO (which happened to be himself) for the company, in the best interest of the company, its employees and its shareholders.

In the same way Dick Cheney chose the best VP (which happened to be himself).

> History absolves him.

History absolves nothing. We've got no idea whatsoever how Tesla would have fared without a self-aggrandising marketer at the helm.

Chances are it might have killed fewer people.

What the fuck ? You might as well call Musk a murderer. What a crippling bias you have there.

Tesla released a half-baked lane detection system and essentially marketed it as autonomous self-driving, completely in line with Musk's usual MO. Saying so is not bias, let alone crippling.