Nikola founder bought truck designs from third party

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And Micro-Soft (yes, two words at the time) bought the core of what would become MS-DOS from a third party.

Is there something else going on here besides noise about who invented something or who purchased an idea?

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4376518-nikola-hype-comes-c...

1. I’d take the technical chops of late 70s Bill Gates and Paul Allen any day over whoever is running things at Nikola.

2. It’s OK to “fake it until you make it” assuming you have a reasonable path to make it at some point. There are serious questions as to whether Nikola has that.

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