Company · Manufacturing · Energy · Transportation & Logistics · founded 2003
Tesla
Electric vehicle and clean energy company, incorporated in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Elon Musk led its 2004 funding round and became CEO in 2008.
Of the 4 people here linked to Tesla, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. 2 of them also appear at OpenAI. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
4 people at Tesla
Board Past
Role
Director, including lead independent director, 2007–2021
Source
· high confidence. Valor's bio says eight years as lead independent director. Valor invested in the 2005 Series B per Forbes.
Finance · Venture Capital · Technology 2 / 2
Antonio Gracias
Founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Valor Equity Partners; early Tesla investor and board member, SpaceX director
upper-middle class (inferred) · well-connected · graduate degree
Investor Past
Role
Early investor, by his own account, 2006
Source
· medium confidence. Fortune interview, syndicated by Yahoo Finance, quotes him saying he invested in Tesla in 2006. Stake size and whether he still holds it are not stated, so status is held at past.
Music 8 / 8
will.i.am
Founder, Black Eyed Peas; co-founder, Beats Electronics
public housing · outsider · no college
Connected companies
Other companies that share profiled people with Tesla.
OpenAI
2 shared: Elon Musk, will.i.am
SpaceX
2 shared: Elon Musk, Antonio Gracias
Twitter / X
2 shared: Elon Musk, will.i.am
Anthropic
1 shared: will.i.am
Apple
1 shared: Larry Ellison
Beats Electronics
1 shared: will.i.am
Dropbox
1 shared: will.i.am
Goldman Sachs
1 shared: Antonio Gracias
Intel
1 shared: will.i.am
Oracle
1 shared: Larry Ellison
PayPal
1 shared: Elon Musk