He then went on to “plead” his fans on Twitter to trash him on Wikipedia resulting in his page needing to be locked due to “inbound vandalism.”.
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Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk on Sunday dismissed claims that he “took” the automaker from president Martin Eberhard, claiming that more of the workers at the electric vehicle business would have entrusted Eberhard if that was the case.
Musk was responding to a string of tweets by @enn_nafnlaus, where the user declared it was a lie that Martin Eberhard established Tesla or that “Elon Musk stole it from him.”
Why It Matters: Musk called Eberhard as “literally the worst individual Ive ever dealt with” on a podcast talking about the early history of Tesla in February..
There are sketchy edits to Tesla wiki that whitewash Eberhards problems/glorify his role. After Q3 2008 financing round bust, no option however to be CEO.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 11, 2020
Wikipedia entry for Tesla currently specifies the business was founded by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. The totally free encyclopedia states Elon Musk, Ian Wright and J.B. Straubel joined as the next 3 staff members and were later on permitted to refer to themselves as co-founders under the 2009 lawsuit settlement.
A contract emerged post the suit wherein the automaker accepted there were five founders of Tesla, according to CNET.
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In reaction, Eberhard said the utterances of Musk during the podcast were an offense of a non-disparagement agreement..
Price Action: Tesla shares closed almost 1.9% higher at $433.95 on Friday and got 0.12% in the after-hours session.
Musk has actually also been crucial of Wikipedia and said in August, “History is written by the victors … except on Wikipedia haha.”.
” This podcast, in addition to Musks current attacks versus me on Twitter, are absolute breaches of his and Teslas shared non-disparagement contracts with me.”.
There are sketchy edits to Tesla wiki that whitewash Eberhards problems/glorify his function. I was interim CEO/co-CEO from July 2007. After Q3 2008 funding round bust, no choice however to be CEO.
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A reference is likewise made on the Wikipedia page of Tesla with a 2009 CNET article about the lawsuit Eberhard submitted declaring that Musk sought to reword Teslas history after his ouster as CEO in 2007.
Musk also called the information offered on Wikipedia about Eberhards role as “questionable” and declared it glorified his role.
