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Starting a Company With a Co-Founder? What Musk v. Altman Can Teach You

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22.05.2026

Starting a Company With a Co-Founder? What Musk v. Altman Can Teach You

The high-profile trial revealed the pitfalls of co-founding a company. Inc asked Silicon Valley founders the lessons they learned from the messy breakup.

Sam Altman, Elon Musk. Illustration: Inc.; Photos: Getty Images

Over the past few weeks, the tech world has been glued to the drama of tech titan Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman. The lawsuit’s discovery process exposed juicy correspondence among company leaders, including emails in which Musk threatened to leave OpenAI; late-night texts from an OpenAI executive seeking Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s........

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