While Elon Musk is sometimes referred to as the founder of Tesla, Martin Eberhard cofounded Tesla in 2003 with his friend Marc Tarpenning.
Musk did not respond to several requests from Insider for comment on this story. Emails to Tesla's press line were not returned.
"We didn't do random firings," he added."I did have to fire some people from time to time, but I hated it.""Honestly, I have Elon Musk blocked in my news feed," he said."I don't need to read any more about him. It just gives me indigestion to read that. What happens is that Musk will make some wild-ass claim on Twitter and suddenly a bunch of reporters want to talk to me. That's how I hear about it.
"Elon is a different person now than he was then," Eberhard said."He was no more involved than any other board member. He came to board meetings. He did not have an office at the company. He didn't come there regularly. He did not give direction to my employees, anything like that. He was a board member."in November shortly after Musk took over that company., Musk said he"was head of product and led the design of the original Roadster.
Eberhard said he realized friction was growing between him and Musk when Tesla started getting more media attention.
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