Tesla’s Bet on Self Driving Cars
4 min readJun 3, 2019
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Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Fast forwarding 5 years later to 2008; Elon Musk took over as a CEO from his previous position as a Chairman after a series of dramatic events. The company went public 2 years later and raised $226 M in an impressive IPO priced initially at 17 USD a share in 2010.
