Startup mafia · Lineage

The Tesla Mafia

Founders who came out of Tesla to start their own companies.

16 founders 32 companies Root: Tesla →

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Every founder in the Tesla lineage

16 founders · 32 companies

Founders who worked at or founded Tesla and went on to build their own companies.

E Elon Musk 14 founded

Zip2 1996 PayPal 1998 X.com 1999 SpaceX 2002 Hyperloop One 2014 OpenAI 2015 Neuralink 2016 The Boring Company 2016 Thud 2017 xAI 2023 X Corp. 2023 SpaceXAI 2023 X Holdings Corp 2023 America PAC

M Mateo Jaramillo 2 founded

Form Energy 2017 Heru 2019

P Peter Carlsson 2 founded

Northvolt 2016 Aris Machina

S Sterling Anderson 2 founded

Aurora Innovation 2017 Aurora 2017

A Alex Jacobs 1 founded

Sila Nanotechnologies 2011

B Bernard Tse 1 founded

Lucid Motors 2007

G Gene Berdichevsky 1 founded

Sila Nanotechnologies 2011

I Ian Wright 1 founded

Wrightspeed 2005

J JB Straubel 1 founded

Redwood Materials 2017

K Kunal Girotra 1 founded

Lunar Energy 2020

L Lyndon Rive 1 founded

SolarCity 2006

M Marc Tarpenning 1 founded

NuvoMedia 1997

M Martin Eberhard 1 founded

NuvoMedia 1997

M Mira Murati 1 founded

Thinking Machines Lab 2025

P Paolo Cerruti 1 founded

Northvolt 2016

P Peter Rive 1 founded

SolarCity 2006

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