Marc Tarpenning
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| Marc Tarpenning | |
| Known for | Co-founded Tesla |
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Marc Tarpenning is a businessman.
Tesla
Marc Tarpenning founded the Tesla electric car company with Martin Eberhard in 2003. In 2009, Eberhard was replaced by Elon Musk as CEO of Tesla and Musk claimed to be a co-founder of the company. Eberhard sued the company claiming that Musk was trying to rewrite the company's history by removing mention of the former as a co-founder.
A settlement was reached where Eberhard, Tarpenning, and Musk, along with Tesla's third employee Ian Wright, and its first chief technical officer J. B. Straubel were considered co-founders of the company.
