Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era

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I bet that rich dumb ass would love this comparison.

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Just going to leave this here and y'all can do the reading: https://www.cnet.com/culture/tesla-motors-founders-now-there-are-five/

Long story short, one of these two guys was ousted and a lawsuit settlement in 2009 determined that there were five co-founders, including Musk.

Note that the lawsuit didn't "determine", it was settled out of court, so there was no determination of fact.

Instead the parties agreed to let Musk call himself a founder for undisclosed terms. Musk basically paid for people to let him use that title as part of the settlement.

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