JB Straubel
$1.62B
as of 04/17/25
About JB Straubel
JB Straubel is the founder and CEO of Redwood Materials and the former chief technology officer of Tesla.
A Stanford-educated engineer, Straubel was working on battery-powered planes in 2003 when he met Elon Musk at a campus lecture.
He joined Tesla as employee No. 5 in 2004, and drove the development of its battery packs and electric motors as CTO. He left the C-suite in 2019 but remains on the board.
He now runs Redwood Materials, a Nevada-based electric vehicle battery recycling startup he founded in 2017.
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United States of AmericaSource of wealth
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Carson City, NevadaBirth date
12/20/75 (age 49)Self-made
self-madeJB Straubel’s fortune is worth
27K
troy ounces of gold
25K
median U.S. household
16K
median U.S. income
0.032%
U.S. credit card volume
0.006%
GDP of the United States
0.005%
United States debt
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