Rank #2309
JB Straubel
Net worth $1.8B
Tesla · United States
- Born
- Dec 20, 1975
- Age
- 50
- Source
- Tesla
- Residence
- Carson City, Nevada
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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.
- He now runs Redwood Materials, a Nevada-based electric vehicle battery recycling startup he founded in 2017. It has since expanded to making battery materials from recovered metals. In 2025, Redwood also began building and selling battery storage systems for data centers..
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