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Originally Posted by PB PM
It's not like he invented the BEV, he just dumped tons of money into the hands of smart people and said make something that will make me more money.  |
Invent it, no. Prove that it's ready for the mass market at a time when competitors were poo-pooing the idea as impractical? Yeah, kind of.
How much of that was on him personally vs. the company, I'm not sure. Even with Tesla, there's kind of a bad taste to it — he retroactively declared himself "founder".