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Re:Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus... by sschueller on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:33PM (#40078647)
"Co-Founder", He joined Tesla almost 1 year after Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla.
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Re:Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus... by gabrielsroka on Thursday April 18, 2024 @04:39PM (#40080486)
> A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five (Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk and Straubel) to call themselves co-founders.[13]

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.>

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Re:Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus... by metadat on Thursday April 18, 2024 @09:50PM (#40082711)
This is a technicality, in the grand scheme of things.
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