Comments on: Tesla Lawsuit: The Incredible Importance of Being a Founder http://gigaom.com/cleantech/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:38:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: A Couple Gems in the Tesla NYT Profile http://gigaom.com/cleantech/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/cleantech/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/cleantech/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/cleantech/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/cleantech/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/cleantech/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/cleantech/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/cleantech/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/cleantech/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/cleantech/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. [...]

]]> By: Tesla Fires Back at Founder, This Time in Court Calling for Dismissal http://gigaom.com/cleantech/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23798 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:55:27 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23798 [...] the question of who gets to call himself “founder,” Tesla has an interesting response — turning it into a matter of free speech. The company [...]

]]> By: For Tesla’s Founding Legacy, Look to AC Propulsion http://gigaom.com/cleantech/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23797 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:53:07 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23797 [...] No Comments Posted June 26th, 2009 at 9:52 am in Automotive I spent a long time thinking and writing about why being acknowledged as a founder was so important to Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard and [...]

]]> By: Tesla CEO Fires Back at Founder, Says Will Respond In Court Soon http://gigaom.com/cleantech/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23796 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:15:56 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23796 [...] and cost overruns of the Roadster. But today he also goes a step further, lobbing fuel into the fiery question of who really deserves the title of “founder” of the startup. Referring to Tesla CTO JB Straubel, Ian Wright and Marc Tarpenning, Musk writes [...]

]]> By: Henry G. http://gigaom.com/cleantech/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23795 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:24:59 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23795 The fight that is “on the page”, so to speak, may not be at all related common day business/representational concerns. If the planet is still here 50-100 years hence the ” founder(s)” will be remembered as the one(s) who cleaned up and REVOLUTIONIZED carbon foot print of the transportation concept.

I am no one of any reputation, but if “we can side-step” this fight amicably, and realize that we may have this one last chance to reclaim the power that we have sent “off-shore” to China, India and damn near everywhere else but Home, maybe we can keep America from dying from the same stupid disease that
killed the Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty (these poor “conservatives/ liberals!!??? even outsourced their Military!!) So much for the “most Powerful….argument.
Tesla’s work is even more important than Einstein’s.

]]> By: Serge http://gigaom.com/cleantech/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23794 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:10:18 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23794 I presume it is hard to “just move on”, when as aptly pointed out in the article, one’s livelihood depends on the existence of “legacy” and “record” that document one’s involvement in and contribution to the process of creating something of value for community, marketplace or society at large.

]]> By: Martin Eberhard sues Elon Musk and Tesla Motors - Page 10 - Tesla Motors Club Forum http://gigaom.com/cleantech/tesla-lawsuit-the-incredible-importance-of-being-a-founder/#comment-23793 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:31:26 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=34138#comment-23793 [...] Tesla Lawsuit: The Incredible Importance of Being a Founder [...]

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