A History of Silicon Valley
This biography is an appendix to my book "A History of Silicon Valley"
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(Copyright © 2009 Piero Scaruffi)
Marc Tarpenning
Marc Tarpenning (California, 1964) grew up in Sacramento and
studied computer science at U.C. Berkeley until 1985.
He worked for Textron in Saudi Arabia until 1990.
Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning
established NuvoMedia in Palo Alto, a company that in 1998
introduced the Rocket eBook, a paperback-sized handheld device to read digital books downloaded from online bookstores.
Tarpenning was in charge of engineering.
After selling it in 2000,
in 2003 Eberhard and Tarpenning
founded Tesla in Palo Alto to build electrical cars, and in
2006 they introduced the Tesla Roadster, the first production automobile to use lithium-ion battery cells.
Tarpenning was in charge of the electrical engineering group.
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