[now__what]

It sounds like he was an influential early investor, but the situation you've described isn't what I would typically think of as "founding" a company. I'm surely not alone in this, thus the present debate. This isn't to diminish Musk's huge influence either; but folks tend not to love when the meanings of words are changed for PR.

[dang]

Attacking other users like this on HN is completely unacceptable. If you do it again we will ban you.

I'm not going to ban you right now because when I looked through your recent history I didn't see a lot of other comments breaking the site guidelines. That is the difference between your account and the other account, which I did ban.*

Please avoid flamewar comments in the future generally, as well. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We've had to warn you about this at least once before.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

* Lest anyone is worried, that difference has nothing to do with agreeing more with one user than the other—we couldn't care less about this flamewar topic. It has only to do with the difference in comment histories.

[kingboss]

Musk was not a founder. He might have been an early investor but he didn't found the company. Stop lying with your fucking propaganda. I hope Musk bought you a pony for your bullshit. You are a musk shill. Stop trying to rewrite history you shill.