https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/26/elon-musks-big-ambitions-may-be-killing-tesla.html >Elon Musk has a lot going on. And it may be coming at the expense of his core business — Tesla. >Let's go back to the company's start. Tesla was founded by friends of Musk in 2003, just one year after Musk started SpaceX. But Tesla's mission to bring electric cars to the masses was one he couldn't pass up.