The now infamous Tesla founder’s feud was one of those classic fights that exemplified the difficulties of the entrepreneurial experience, as well as the bumpy road for an electric vehicle startup. And it has now supposedly ended as abruptly as it started: this morning, according to […] Read more »
Compared with Tesla Motors co-founder Martin Eberhard, the startup’s other founder — Marc Tarpenning — has kept a relatively low profile. But Tarpenning spoke this morning at IBM’s Almaden Institute 2009 in San Jose, Calif., telling his version of the Tesla creation story that Eberhard and […] Read more »
Updated: Of all the twists and turns we might have expected to follow last month’s court decision that enabled ousted Tesla founder Martin Eberhard’s lawsuit against the electric car startup and CEO Elon Musk to proceed, this one has caught us by surprise: Eberhard has dropped […] Read more »
When Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard’s lawsuit against the electric vehicle startup and its current CEO, Elon Musk, surfaced earlier this month, Tesla called the allegations of libel, slander and breach of contract “an unfair personal attack,” and said it “will likely be filing counterclaims.” Now […] Read more »
I spent a long time thinking and writing about why being acknowledged as a founder was so important to Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard as well as what the founder title means for entrepreneurs (monetarily and emotionally) overall. But it takes someone who experienced the workings […] Read more »
Welcome to Round 2 of the latest Tesla Motors feud. The electric car startup’s CEO, Elon Musk, has just written a post on the official company blog countering the claims of founder Martin Eberhard, who alleges that Musk has libeled and slandered him, and that Tesla […] Read more »
Wade through the 146 pages of Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard’s lawsuit against Tesla, and its current CEO, Elon Musk, and one thing is clear: Eberhard wants his legacy as the founder (along with co-founder Marc Tarpenning) of Tesla to be widely known and acknowledged. More […] Read more »
This ought to satisfy any remaining doubters that the next Apple iPhone will support faster 3G speeds on AT&T’s network. Telephony Online shares news that’s not entirely unexpected: AT&T is in the process of upgrading their 3G network: “AT&T is increasing the downlink capacity on its […] Read more »