Tesla Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk on Sunday dismissed allegations that Chief Executive Martin Eberhard had “stolen” AutoTomeker, and claimed that more electric vehicle workers would have gone with Eberhard if that had been the case.
what happened: “When Iberhard was fired as CEO of Tesla in mid-2007 for providing false information to me. [and] Board, no one left with it. That’s all there is to it, “said the billionaire businessman Twitter.
Kasturi was answering String of tweets via @ennna_nfnlaus, where the user claims it was a lie that Martin Eberhard founded Tesla that “Elon Musk stole from him.”
Kasturi also called the information he provided on Wikipedia “sketchy” about Eberhard’s role and claimed that he glorified his role.
There are vague edits on the Tesla wiki that whitewash Eberhard’s problems / glorify his role. Very strange. I have been the Interim CEO / Co-CEO since July 2007. Michael Marks was co-CEO for Q4 2007 and Zive Drewry for Q1 to Q3.
– Elon Musk (elonmusk) October 11, 2020
Tesla’s Wikipedia entry currently states that the company was founded in 2003 by engineers Martin Eberhard and Mark Tarping. The free encyclopedia says that Elon Musk, Ian Wright and JB Strobel joined as the next three employees and were later allowed to identify as co-founders. 2009 lawsuit under settlement.
There is also a reference to a lawsuit filed by Eberhard on Tesla’s Wikipedia page with a 2009 CNET article in which Musk sought to rewrite Tesla’s history after he was fired as CEO in 2007.
An agreement was reached after a lawsuit was accepted by an automaker that had five Tesla founders, according to CNET.
Why it’s important: On a podcast discussing Tesla’s early history in February, Kasturi called Eberhard “literally working with the worst guy.”
In response, Eberhardt said Musk’s utterances during the podcast violated the non-alignment agreement.
“This podcast, along with Musk’s recent attacks on me on Twitter, is a complete breach of his and Tesla’s mutual non-instability agreement with me.”
Kasturi also criticized Wikipedia, saying in August, “History is written by vendors … except Wikipedia yes.”
He then slammed it on Wikipedia for “begging” his followers on Twitter, leading to “incoming sabotage”.
Price action: Shares of Tesla rose nearly 1.9% to close at 3 433.95 on Friday and rose 0.12% in the session after hours.
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