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That's a bit misleading. Musk was a part of Tesla from day 1 and provided most of the funding. He served as Chairman since 2004.

When he took over in 2008, Tesla had just started producing the first roadster, which was really just a conversion kit for a lotus. After musk became CEO, Tesla became the world's most valuable car company...

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There is a difference between "funding a Roadster" and "designing and fully understanding the physics and mechanics of the Roadster".

> designing and fully understanding the physics and mechanics of the Roadster.

I've never seen anyone claim Musk did that. What are you on about?

From the context of your comment, it seemed as though you meant to support the notion that Elon Musk was working as a scientist, not a businessman.

That's fair. I should have quoted the first two sentences of my parent explicitly:

> Most of the achievements people ascribe to him aren't even his. Musk bought the company then gave himself the title of 'founder

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