Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich

Mush didn't found Tesla. He bought it later and put in the contract that he was able to call himself a founder

And this isn't even right, 2 people founded Tesla the other 3 are investors....

Tesla only had two founders, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. They even write that in the first paragraph. Especially Elon Musk pretty much bought himself the title co-founder despite joining much later. This is just Elon fanboyism.

Yes. That is what happens when you sell the majority of your business.

the world’s most valuable automotive company.

Lol no.

"Unlucky cofounders" - the lowest net worth of any of them is 7 million. Ian's not doing half bad considering most people will work their entire lives and not get a net worth even half of his.

The next one up has a net worth of 200 million.

This seems extremely poorly researched.

I was never interested in following up claims that Musk was not a founder, but to the extent this article is fair, I’d say he earned the title of founder as well as being the wealthiest. Maybe he was the only one who could afford to go all in on Tesla, but the fact is he went all in on Tesla and put arguably the most into building it into a car manufacturer

And they all look extremely rich to me. Even the “poorest” of the group made $7M for one year

“I made this!”

He was not a founder.