Comments on: Tesla Lawsuit: The Incredible Importance of Being a Founder http://gigaom.com/2009/06/14/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/ Sun, 19 May 2013 01:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: A Couple Gems in the Tesla NYT Profile http://gigaom.com/2009/06/14/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23808 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:30:48 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23808 [...] interesting side note is about Tesla co-founder and previous CEO Martin Eberhard, who at one point sued Elon Musk and Tesla over who was the real founder of the company (that suit was settled). I had heard earlier this month that Eberhard was working at Volkswagen and [...]

]]> By: What’s Faster than Tesla? Wrightspeed’s Hybrid Car & Truck Dreams http://gigaom.com/2009/06/14/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23807 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:01:30 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23807 [...] Wright clearly likes to push boundaries — he’s an electrical engineer, who spent 20 years building broadband networking products and later electric drive train technology, and has worked mostly for startups first in New Zealand and later in Silicon Valley. It’s a quality he shares with Tesla’s now dominant force, investor and CEO Elon Musk, who Wright says invested in Tesla after just a 2-hour meeting with him and co-founders Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning: “That’s the kind of investor you want to find,” says Wright. (Perhaps not the kind Eberhard wanted, but that’s a different story). [...]

]]> By: Week In Greentech IPOs: Tesla Prices Up, Solyndra Cancels http://gigaom.com/2009/06/14/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23806 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:48:33 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23806 [...] appeal — is such an utterly cool concept that despite a lot of ups and downs at the company (from the founders feud, to months and months of delays of the Roadster, to layoffs, to slapping Roadster customers with [...]

]]> By: What A Successful Tesla IPO Would Mean: Branding Is Everything http://gigaom.com/2009/06/14/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23805 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:01:40 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23805 [...] — is such an utterly cool concept that despite a lot of ups and downs at the company (from the founders feud, to months and months of delays of the Roadster, to layoffs, to slapping Roadster customers with [...]

]]> By: Top 15 Stories from 2009 | Earth2Tech « http://gigaom.com/2009/06/14/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23804 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:29:31 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23804 [...] Tesla Lawsuit: The Incredible Importance of Being a Founder: Tesla’s founder lawsuit was one of the spots of tabloid drama out of the greentech industry this year. But it did offer a blueprint for what not to do when choosing a founding team. Something to think about for all those entrepreneurs out there. [...]

]]> By: Our Favorites: Top 15 Earth2Tech Stories from 2009 http://gigaom.com/2009/06/14/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23803 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:02:54 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23803 [...] Tesla Lawsuit: The Incredible Importance of Being a Founder: Tesla’s founder lawsuit was one of the spots of tabloid drama out of the greentech industry this year. But it did offer a blueprint for what not to do when choosing a founding team. Something to think about for all those entrepreneurs out there. [...]

]]> By: Tesla Founders Awkwardly Hug It Out http://gigaom.com/2009/06/14/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23802 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:44:00 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23802 [...] now infamous Tesla founder’s feud was one of those classic fights that exemplified the difficulties of the entrepreneurial [...]

]]> By: mark w http://gigaom.com/2009/06/14/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23801 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:43:06 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23801 Let’s see who has been represented on the web more often as Tesla founder:

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=tesla+founder+elon+musk&word2=tesla+founder+martin+eberhard

Winner: Musk!

I’d say that’s reason enough for Eberhard to ratchet things up a notch.

]]> By: Tesla Founder Drops Lawsuit Against Tesla & CEO http://gigaom.com/2009/06/14/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23800 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:55:29 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23800 [...] and the response from Tesla (which declined to comment for this story), centered on the question of who should get credit for founding the startup that has by now survived several lawsuits, a series of delays and serious financial troubles [...]

]]> By: Court Gives Green Light for Tesla Founder’s Lawsuit to Proceed http://gigaom.com/2009/06/14/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23799 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:50:45 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23799 [...] For electric car startup Tesla Motors, it’s the little things that count in today’s ruling by a San Mateo County Superior Court judge, which essentially gives the green light for founder Martin Eberhard’s lawsuit against Tesla and CEO Elon Musk to proceed almost entirely intact. “Would we have liked to see the entire case dismissed? Yes,” Tesla spokesperson Rachel Konrad told us after the ruling today. “But we’re very happy about the founder issue,” she said, referring to the court’s decision to not define what it means to be a founder. [...]

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