One of the risks of being the first company in a new market is being sideswiped by copycat competitors. In a way, that is what has happened to Elon Musk who founded Tesla Inc. in 2003. In this Forbes report, transportation writer Alan Ohnsman describes how many of Musk’s former employees at Tesla left to launch their own EV and battery companies to challenge Tesla in what is now a cutthroat market.
