When asked whether he sold the stock because of the Twitter poll, he said he needed to exercise stock options that are expiring next year 'no matter what'
The billionaire may face a tax bill of more than $10 billion for 2021 if he exercises all his options due to expire next year, calculations last week by Bloomberg News showed.
A SpaceX rocket carried 52 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from California early Saturday.
The satellite company is led by the world's richest person Elon Musk
In a column, the FT's editor, Roula Khalaf, credited Musk for demonstrating that EVs could replace cars fueled by gasoline, and called him a revolutionary in the industry
Six more women have filed separate lawsuits against electric car-maker, Tesla, in the US for rampant sexually harassment at the workplace
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold another 934,091 shares of the electric vehicle maker worth $906.5 million, US securities filings showed
Tesla sells merchandise such as apparel, belt buckle, mini models of its vehicles, quad bike 'Cyberquad' for kids and 'Cyberwhistle' modeled after its much-awaited Cybertruck
Calling him a "clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman," Time magazine has named Tesla CEO Elon Musk as its Person of the Year for 2021.
From hosting SNL to dropping tweets on cryptos and meme stocks that have triggered massive movements in their value, Musk has dominated the headlines and amassed over 66 mn followers on Twitter
The meme shows a man in a bar asking a woman, "What do you do?". She replies, "I'm the Prime Minister of Finland," and the man reacts in shock.
Musk has sold another 934,091 shares of the electric vehicle maker worth $963.2 million, US securities filings showed
Musk said during a conference call in January that he that he expects to be the CEO of Tesla for 'several years'.
"He doesn't seem to care much about using his philanthropy to curry public favour," Benjamin Soskis said
The automaker added the games in an over-the-air software update that was sent to most of its cars this summer
Taking on US President Joe Biden, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that America does not need his administration's ambitious $1 trillion infrastructure bill, or any of the government subsidies.
Company is struggling to procure a raw material only available in China, for a battery cell that it's trying to develop in-house.
That leaves Musk's fortune at $268.9 billion
The purpose of the sales were to help Musk offset taxes
Tesla will continue to operate its electric vehicle factory in Fremont, California, and increase production there by 50 per cent