Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk blew up the claim that he did not actually found electric vehicle company Tesla.
The world&#8217;s richest man responded in a Twitter thread after entrepreneur Vaibhav Sisinty argued that Musk had simply &#8220;acquired&#8221; the company rather than founding it himself.
&#8220;Elon Musk was not the founder of Tesla. He acquired it,&#8221; Sisinty tweeted. &#8220;Just reminding.&#8221;
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Elon Musk was not the founder of Tesla. He acquired it.
Just reminding 🙂
&mdash; Vaibhav Sisinty (@VaibhavSisinty) <a href="https://twitter.com/VaibhavSisinty/status/1517018734480994304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
Musk <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/tesla-dubs-elon-musk-its-technoking-in-new-sec-filings/">pushed back</a>, saying that what he had essentially acquired was an idea with no structure or resources behind it.
&#8220;Not even close to that. It was a shell corp with no employees, no IP, no designs, no prototype, literally nothing but a biz plan to commercialize AC Propulsion’s Tzero car, which was introduced to me by JB Straubel, *not* Eberhard,&#8221; Musk tweeted. &#8220;Even name &#8216;Tesla Motors&#8217; was owned by others!&#8221;
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Not even close to that. It was a shell corp with no employees, no IP, no designs, no prototype, literally nothing but a biz plan to commercialize AC Propulsion’s Tzero car, which was introduced to me by JB Straubel, *not* Eberhard. 
Even name “Tesla Motors” was owned by others!
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517052799070126080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;If filing a shell corp constitutes “founding a company”, then I’d be the only founder of PayPal, since I filed the original incorporation docs for <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://t.co/bOUOek5Cvy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">X.com</a> (later renamed PayPal), but that’s not what founding means,&#8221; Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517053535464181761">continued</a>.
&#8220;When Eberhard was fired unanimously by the board in July 2007 (for damn good reasons), no one left with him. That says it all,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517054436736126977">said</a>.
Musk concluded by claiming that as long as the &#8220;losing party&#8221; had enough spare time, history could always be changed on Wikipedia. &#8220;They say history is written by the victors, but not on Wikipedia if the losing party is still alive &amp; has lots of time on their hands!&#8221; he said.
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They say history is written by the victors, but not on Wikipedia if the losing party is still alive &amp; has lots of time on their hands!
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517055957209071617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
Sisinty later responded that his point had not been to downplay Musk&#8217;s role at Tesla, but rather to suggest that the billionaire could have a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/snl-elon-musk-wants-to-buy-twitter-so-white-guys-can-say-the-n-word/">similar impact on Twitter</a> if he were successful in his bid to acquire that.
&#8220;I believe that @elon can actually &#8216;tap into twitter&#8217;s true potential&#8217; if he acquires it. Hence the tweet! For a company to do well, it needs a strong leader, usually the founder in most companies. Jack is out. Elon can be the one,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/VaibhavSisinty/status/1517085831009554432">explained</a> several hours later.
Sisinty later added one more tweet issuing an apology for tagging &#8220;the wrong&#8221; Elon.
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Oops, wrong <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> was tagged.
&mdash; Vaibhav Sisinty (@VaibhavSisinty) <a href="https://twitter.com/VaibhavSisinty/status/1517149982645960704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
According to the most recent reporting, Musk <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/musk-announces-hes-secured-funding-for-twitter-details-potential-next-move-to-work-around-unresponsive-board/">has secured</a> the funding necessary to move forward with his plans to buy the social media site. As reported by The Daily Wire&#8217;s Amanda Prestigiacamo, &#8220;Tesla CEO Elon Musk disclosed Thursday that he has received commitment letters for $46.5 billion in funding to purchase Twitter, as well as a workaround since the Twitter board has been unresponsive to the billionaire.&#8221;
Twitter&#8217;s board has adopted a &#8220;limited duration shareholder rights plan&#8221; in an effort to dilute Musk&#8217;s power and stymie any immediate moves he could make to buy the company.

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