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Ex-company founders

Ex-Tesla founders: 16 people who left Tesla to start companies

16 people who founded or worked at Tesla went on to found 32 companies, including Alex Jacobs, Bernard Tse, Elon Musk, Gene Berdichevsky and 12 others.

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Founders who came from Tesla

16
Went on to found
Sila Nanotechnologies 2011
Went on to found
Lucid Motors 2007
Elon Musk
Businessman (born 1971)
Went on to found
Sila Nanotechnologies 2011
Went on to found
Wrightspeed 2005
JB Straubel
American businessman (born 1975)
Went on to found
Redwood Materials 2017
Went on to found
Lunar Energy 2020
Lyndon Rive
South African businessman (born 1977)
Went on to found
SolarCity 2006
Marc Tarpenning
American technology entrepreneur (born 1964)
Went on to found
NuvoMedia 1997
Martin Eberhard
American engineer and business executive (born 1960)
Went on to found
NuvoMedia 1997
Went on to found
Form Energy 2017 Heru 2019
Mira Murati
Albanian-American business executive
Went on to found
Thinking Machines Lab 2025
Went on to found
Northvolt 2016
Went on to found
Northvolt 2016 Aris Machina
Went on to found
SolarCity 2006
How this list is built. A person appears here if they founded or worked at Tesla and later founded at least one other company in the graph. Missing someone? Add them.