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  • What are Elon Musk’s Plans For Twitter?

    The world I see around and in fact, the world, which we all see around is mostly glued to the screens. At a point in time, you may develop some sense that this world is covered with more screens than living organisms. There is something that is too addicting about these screens. In fact, we all know what that addicting element is! Most probably, it is social media.

    We live in a society, where we don’t really live in a society, in fact, we live on social media, jumping from one medium to the other. We might be posting some fun photos on Instagram for a second, choosing captions for the posts on Facebook, and then typing out feels on Twitter. Covered with an immense responsibility of maintaining every social media with a good social life has gotten all over us.

    In a world where everyone is on social media, it is really important this social media happens to be privacy-focused and acts as a good and moral form of media. It should be more democratic and should have all the fundamentals of democracy like the right to freedom of speech. Furthermore, it should also be open for all features with strict guidelines about hate and misconduct which we all witness online. The past five years or maybe ten years have been consumed in this discussion of maintaining social media.

    There are influential people involved in this decision and the social mediums we use every day are really getting better every day. This article is about one such social media, and that is Twitter. Twitter is one of the most famous platforms in the world. We will cover how it is changing, the recent news about Elon Musk’s decision of buying out all of Twitter’s stakes, the probability of him acquiring the company as a whole, and how the termination of the acquisition deal has dragged the two parties to the court. There were a lot of updates involving Twitter and the decision of Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition. So, let us see the events one frame at a time and then ascertain how the company is doing at present and where the company is headed. First, let us see who the protagonist of this news is, and why he is such a sensation!

    Who is Elon Musk?
    Reaction to Elon Musk Acquiring a 9.13% Stake in Twitter
    Elon Musk Replaced as the largest shareholder of Twitter
    Elon Musk Tweet’s Analysis
    Twitter Edit Button Foray
    Elon Musk Not Joining Twitter Board
    Has Elon Musk Bought Out Twitter?
    The Present State of Twitter
    The Expected Future of Twitter

    Who is Elon Musk?

    You must be living under a rock if you don’t know who Elon Musk is! He is probably the most famous and most sensational entrepreneur and businessman ever known to humanity (at least in the twenty-first century). He is smart, he has all the skills to create something in the field of science and technology, and if you look at his Twitter account, he is hilarious.

    He is the founder of SpaceX (a space company that builds and launches rockets), The Boring Company (a tunnel-making company for better and futuristic transportation), and the all-time great Tesla (a smart car manufacturer). This man has literally made everything that most technologists in the world have mentioned to be impossible in the near future.

    Maintaining such big companies and a lot more other companies, Elon Musk comes on the list of richest people in the world, and with a net worth of $220+ bn in June 2022, he is the richest among all of them.

    Besides, most investors and people in the world love him and trust him. This is Elon Musk, and of course, not to mention that with great powers, comes great responsibilities. He is such an influential person that once he skyrocketed the price of Bitcoin, just by a tweet. He is the mind behind the joke turned crypto, Dogecoin, and behind the “to the moon” phrased meme all over the internet.

    The best way to find out about Elon is probably not his Wikipedia, it is his Twitter account. He is the most transparent and his usual self on Twitter, I’m joking. His account is filled with memes, jokes, more burning jokes, facts, and sometimes random wisdom. Not to mention, Twitter seems to be his favourite social media among all the social media in the world, perhaps that is why Musk initially decided to buy it, but he eventually backed out from the same.

    The founder of Tesla spends a disproportionate amount of time on this medium. This calls for some recent news, the news about buying Twitter. However, before disclosing the news of Musk not buying out Twitter and getting sued instead, you need to understand the back story about why he decided to do the same, and how he did go near it but closed it unfinished.

    Reaction to Elon Musk Acquiring a 9.13% Stake in Twitter

    The news that came off on 4th April 2022, shook Twitter. Not just Twitter but every shareholder of the company. Elon Musk bought 9.13% of the stakes of the company. The result of this action was that it made him the biggest shareholder of Twitter among others. This move of buying the biggest stake in the company gave him more power than any other shareholder in the company.

    As the news broke out of Elon taking a 9.13% share of the company in his ownership, there were many repercussions. As a man who is a very influential personality in the world, this move was unexpected and uncertain at the same time. In fact, there are multiple instances where Elon proved that he is not predictable at all. He does whatever he feels like doing and with the same stance, he speaks whatever on Twitter he wants to.

    As Elon bought 9.13% of the social media giant, there were reactions all over. It is to be noted that Elon’s share in the company then stood at about four times that of Dorsey. Jack Dorsey was the co-founder and was one of the key people responsible for the launch of the company, he eventually stepped down from the CEO position followed by his resignation from the Twitter Board of Directors. Elon surpassed Jack with this investment and had more ownership than him.

    Another event that occurred after the stakeholding was the jump in the share price of the company. It is to be noted here that the social media giant is a listed company, as it is an enormous firm that requires a listing of its own. As a person who can change the price of bitcoin with just a tweet, we can only guess that buying 9.13% shares in a company as large as Twitter, would imply similar reactions for sure. The shares of Twitter jumped 27% after the news broke out on the 4th of April, 2022. This has also been noted as the single biggest jump for the company’s shares till then.

    Elon Musk didn’t write to SEC when his stakes in Twitter went beyond 5%, which was a violation of US security laws. Therefore, when he disclosed his acquisition of over 9% of Twitter shares via the 13G filing of SEC on April 4, 2022, the shares of the social media platform saw the largest intraday surge in their prices since its 2013 IPO.

    With a 9.7% stake in Twitter, Elon was bestowed with powers that can change and alter the decisions of the whole company and thus, the market image of the social media giant. In fact, in some other news, it was also mentioned that Elon was all set to join the board of the company, which would have helped him get the powers of dictating the company. This is one of the prominent privileges that the topmost shareholder of a company get. However, Elon initially delayed the same until it was effective from April 9th.

    All of the above repercussions or reactions were just one part of the story and they were the most noticeable changes in the company and the outside. However, there were more reactions and repercussions that were still not revealed to the world then.

    Before Elon starts his own sways as the owner of the company once the pending Twitter deal is approved, we must see what kind of changes we can expect from him. For this information, we will have to look at his Twitter account. His Twitter account has always been full of useful nuggets of information that can guide us in the direction that this person will be taking on Twitter. Let us have a look at his most recent tweets among the news of him buying the most shares of Twitter.

    Elon Musk Replaced as the largest shareholder of Twitter

    The story so far has been easy to follow but now there occurred a twist that turned everything. This was another update to the story, the ‘Elon and the hostile takeover of Twitter’ story. Now, before we tell you the story, let us inform you that there are five major shareholders in Twitter. Those five names, according to their shareholdings are Elon Musk, The Vanguard Group, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock and State Street. All these five Investors/Firms make up for all the ownership of Twitter. Collectively, these top five Twitter shareholders own more than 37% of Twitter.

    Now that Elon was trying to buy the whole company with some really rash conditions like reconsidering his already biggest shareholding in the company, other investors thought to come up on stage. The Vanguard Group, which is the biggest shareholder, next to Elon decided to come into the picture. Vanguard increased its share in Twitter, which led Elon to bump off his perch. The Vanguard Group, which is an asset management firm, grew its stakes in the social media giant, Twitter to 10.3% of the company. The group then owned 82.4 million shares of Twitter, which made them the highest shareholder in the company, offsetting Elon’s shareholding of 9.13% in the company.

    The Vanguard Group overtook Elon Musk as the largest shareholder of Twitter. The move came after Elon tried to take the company into his own hands, rather forcefully. Experts started referring to this as a hostile takeover of Twitter. Soon after Elon’s action, the “Twitter Takeover” hashtag also started to go viral with thousands of Twitter users replying to it and commenting on their views. Vanguard’s move of buying and owning the largest stake in the company came to offset what Elon is up to. According to Elon, who seemed to be a hardcore advocate of free speech, Twitter is not doing enough to promote free speech. Musk wanted to make the company a private company, from a publicly listed company and thought that he can unlock its full potential. One thing is sure, Twitter headquarters had been on fire at that moment.

    Elon Musk Tweet’s Analysis

    Most celebrities do not like controversies. Let me rephrase it, most celebrities try and avoid any sort of controversies whatsoever in the world. Most people in the world love controversies and stories with great spice in them. As opposed to the popular opinion of being controversial, most celebrities in the world try to avoid arguable moments, at least in public.

    Elon belongs to that category of influencers or celebrities who absolutely love controversies. Musk is someone who is super transparent and speaks his mind, even in public. He does not really care about what the repercussions will be and how people will react to his ideas. He just does.

    His Twitter account reflects what we just mentioned in the last paragraph. He is his honest self on this social media and just tweets without a second thought. That is one reason for the immense following that he has gotten on Twitter.

    Soon after the news broke of Elon Musk buying a 9.13% stake in Twitter, he was, as usual, active on his Twitter account. It was the 4th of April when this happened and he has tweeted a lot of things since then. Let us see what he has been up to, by decoding his tweets and polls, and pictures. Here it goes:

    One of the first things that he posted on Twitter after becoming the major stakeholder in the company, was a meme. He literally posted a meme which is quite a usual post on his Twitter account and fans reacted the same.

    Fans blew up the post by hitting the retweet button a million times. The meme showcased Elon Musk smoking weed. Yes, it gets as weird as we speak more about it. Let us link it up here, the tweeted photograph so that you can relate to what we are saying.

    Elon Musk tweet after becoming the major shareholder of Twitter
    Elon Musk tweet after becoming the major shareholder of Twitter

    The photograph is of Elon in a past podcast with the podcaster Joe Rogan. Now it is here to be mentioned that Joe Rogan is a popular podcaster and he has an audience that is huge. As mentioned earlier, Elon is his usual self on Twitter, as the world likes to believe and as seen everywhere on the internet. This event was controversial, and it even affected Tesla’s share.

    Going back to the tweet, he shared this image of him smoking weed. The image also entailed a caption on the top of the image that read “Twitter’s next board meeting is gonna be lit”. The post is, NOT GONNA LIE is hilarious. It shows that this person is super chill and raises questions on the future of Twitter as a social media which is becoming more and more transparent.

    The next tweet of Elon Musk, which we are going to mention here, was also a hit and had rave responses from people all over the world. This time, Elon commented on the famous issue that Twitter has had for a long time now. The edit button. His tweet was a poll in which he asked his 81 million followers “Do you want an edit button ?” He also cleverly added two typos in his tweet poll, misspelling ‘Yes’ as ‘yse’ and ‘No’ to ‘on’, which was not a random mistake but a thoughtful mistake. This marks the old debate of Twitter having an edit post button like other social mediums.

    Elon Musk Edit Button Tweet
    Elon Musk Edit Button Tweet

    Parag Agrawal retweeted Elon’s tweet poll and wrote a caption that he wants participants of the poll to choose carefully as this will have implications in the future. Twitter officially mentioned later that they are working on an edit button. Elon’s tweets were famous back then and now, he is the biggest shareholder in the company, which means that he has to decide the powers in his hands.


    The next tweet that we want to talk about is another recent tweet after he became the largest stakeholder in the company. This was actually a retweet with a quote that he wrote. He retweeted some tweets that showcased ‘the topmost followed accounts on Twitter.

    The original tweet involved mentions of celebrities Obama, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, and other celebrities on Twitter. Elon retweeted it by saying, “most of these top accounts tweet rarely and post very little content”. He also added a question “is Twitter dying”. It mentioned the low popularity of Twitter and super users using this social medium to post less content, as compared with other social mediums like Instagram. This raises questions about the popularity of the social media giant.


    Elon Musk Top Accounts Tweet
    Elon Musk Top Accounts Tweet

    He also added some more replies to his original quoted tweet by mentioning some of the top accounts. He said that top accounts like that of Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift did very little or no posts this last year. This sprung many reactions out from everyone who interacted with the tweet. Thus, taking a toll on Twitter and its largest accounts in terms of follower counts.

    In another tweet, Elon Musk wrote, ”Convert Twitter SF HQ to a homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway,”. The tweet was a poll with many participants saying yes to the idea. One of the participants in the poll was none other than the richest person on earth, Jeff Bezos. He agreed to that tweet replying that he and his team at Amazon did a similar thing. Jeff and his team did turn one portion of their corporate office at someplace into a homeless shelter.


    The tweet about converting Twitter headquarters into a homeless shelter came after Elon observed that the employees weren’t coming to the office. So, this poll was an attempt to take a toll on the employees there. However, we feel that folks at Twitter are doing a pretty solid job at their work.

    After analysing a lot of tweets from the CEO of Tesla, it’s time to look at the platform and the most famous issue with it. The edit button has been the centre of outrage on this social media for a long time now. Here we will see what it is and how it will be in the future.

    Twitter Edit Button Foray

    Twitter is a social media that revolves mostly around typed texts. Posts are mostly typed texts that are also limited to some, One hundred and forty characters. This character limit was much shorter in the past and was increased following the huge demand from Twitter users. This is an example where Twitter shows that it takes care of its user demands.

    However, there is one more thing that pinches Twitter users. That thing is the absence of an edit button. Twitter has had no edit button since its inception and people are super pissed off from this thing. They have been asking for it for a long time now and Elon entering the scene has been a ray of hope for these people.

    In the past, Twitter said that having no edit button inspires people to type responsibly and sensibly. Twitter has also mentioned in a quirky way that “Your typos make it original”. Which is a good escape from the situation. Even before this edit feature was a thing, the issue was fewer characters to tweet. Twitter used to dismiss it by saying that fewer characters for tweeting inspire creativity.

    Turns out that the edit button issue is a big issue for all Twitter users and this has to be made a feature on the website and the app. As Elon stepped into the scene with the biggest shareholding in the company, there was hope in the eyes of Twitter users.

    In a very recent tweet, Twitter mentioned that “We are working on an edit button”. This tweet, however, was on the first of April, which is known as April fools’ day. If this is a prank or it is a real thing, we can’t say it in sure terms. Only time will tell if Twitter will really be adding an edit button or if it was a massive prank. It is not funny however anymore.


    Elon Musk Not Joining Twitter Board

    This was big news for the world, when everyone was expecting Elon to be joining the board at Twitter, this news came out. Let us see what the article that Parag posted said and try to see what happened here. Parag sent a snapshot of the post that he shared with his team on Twitter. The first line of the article read “Elon Musk has decided not to join our board” and then came the explanations.

    He said that the Twitter board and Parag himself discussed many things with Elon Musk, that too face-to-face, with no hierarchy in between. The board of directors at Twitter was super excited about Elon joining the board but they want to be sure about the risks involved in the action. The article mentioned that the company expected Elon to act as a real board member, which simply means that he has to work in the best interest of the company and all the shareholders.

    With all these general terms and conditions that every company would expect from a board member, the Twitter board offered Elon a seat happily. This was mentioned in the article. Twitter even announced the same on Tuesday on an official notice that Elon will be appointed as a board member. With some little background check.

    All the work was nearly done but the next morning, Elon himself said that he will no longer be joining the Twitter board. Parag mentioned that he believes that this decision is for the best and they have always looked out for shareholders’ input. For the time being, Elon Musk is the largest shareholder, and the owner of the company, and will remain that way, and the company will always be open to his input. This means that the Tesla CEO will not become a part of the board of Twitter but will remain the largest shareholder in the company with all the rights of a shareholder.

    Parag also mentioned that the future of Twitter is full of distractions and all the people working at the company will have to prioritise goals and achievements.

    All these events on Twitter really define Elon as an unpredictable person who just can’t be predicted. Not to mention that this company, Twitter is his favourite social media space and now he is its biggest shareholder. This is expected that Elon will be good to the board and will not create any sort of ruckus that is not needed there. But again, Elon is unpredictable as always, and saying no to the opportunity of staying on the board of directors, will help Twitter stay focussed on what they are trying to build.

    As the news broke out, there was an immediate effect that could be seen with naked eyes. Twitter shares fell down, as the stock exchanges are just a reflection of investors’ feelings. It is obvious that investors were hurt by this decision and thus, they started pulling money off their stock and portfolio from Twitter. This was the effect of news and Elon, as mentioned earlier is his usual self and does not really care about controversies. He can just punch a stock with a tweet.

    Has Elon Musk Bought Out Twitter?

    Yes, you’ve heard it partly right! Elon Musk has not actually bought out Twitter by buying 100% stakes in the firm on April 26, 2022, but Musk is enthusiastic and the deal is pending final approval. The “is enthusiastic” has now turned to “was enthusiastic”. Yes, Elon Musk lacks any more zeal to continue with the Twitter buyout and has reportedly abandoned the idea, as per July 9, 2022 reports. In response to Musk’s decision, Twitter has responded that it will take legal action against the Tesla CEO and will force the deal to go through.

    As we mentioned, this article has to be updated to the latest version of the story. In our research, we found another update and we got to know that Elon wanted to buy the whole company. Not that this was not evident from his actions but this was big news indeed.

    Elon Musk asked the board to sell the company to him. As a Twitter admirer and then the biggest shareholder in the company, he said that this company has a lot of potentials. A huge potential that was left untapped. He also mentioned that he thought he was the key person that could unlock that potential.

    Tesla’s CEO offered the company an offer that seemed too good to be true. He said that he will buy every share for 54.20 dollars each, which will value the company at a whopping $43 billion. As the news broke out that the world’s richest person is trying to buy the social media giant, the stock markets reacted in a positive manner. Twitter shares jumped up 5.3% and stood at 48.2 dollars.

    Twitter said that its board would review the proposal and any response would be in the best interests of “all Twitter stockholders.”

    It all started on 4th April 2022, when Musk agreed to a deal that would appoint him to the Board of Directors of Twitter on April 4, 2022, while prohibiting him from acquiring more than 14.9% of the company. However, Elon decided to not join the board before his appointment became effective on the 9th of April.

    Elon Musk finally offered $44 bn on April 13, 2022, to buy out 100% shares in Twitter at $54.20 per share. This was fueled by his desire to take the company private. Musk reportedly said that Twitter will “neither thrive nor serve [its free speech] societal imperative in its current form”, adding that it “needs to be transformed as a private company.” Though Twitter’s board initially adopted a shareholder rights plan, which aimed at making it more expensive than it was possible for any single investor to own more than 15% of the company without permission from the board of Twitter, it later accepted Musk’s offer on April 25, 2022. However, Elon Musk’s bid worth $44 bn to buy 100% of Twitter is still pending due to some issues related to spam and fake Twitter accounts.

    Twitter wanted all its actions to fall exactly in the place that will help the company and the stakeholders grow. The current scene with Elon looked too unpredictable and unstable to think. The offer that he made was really good but what the board was unable to decide was the fitness of Elon for the role of the most important person in the organisation. If Twitter was bought by Elon, the company will have to do whatever he says as he will have all the controlling rights, thought the board. Elon was surely too unpredictable and uncertain to have the handle for the whole company.

    “If the deal doesn’t work, given that I don’t have confidence in management nor do I believe I can drive the necessary change in the public market, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder,” said Musk.

    This was really a big reply as recently Elon made public his stake at 9% and not the 9.13% that was previously mentioned. This again angered investors in the company. Elon had too much power, which had to be controlled otherwise, this man was expected to buy out Twitter in a hostile manner. We use the word hostile here because if the company refused to accept Elon’s offer, it meant that he will not invest in the company. This directly implied that the stocks will crash, inevitably. This was a situation where the company was taken hostage and what will happen next really looked like a war-like situation between Elon and Twitter. Though everyone thought all of that ended in the reconciliation of Twitter and Elon Musk, who planned to complete his 100% acquisition of Twitter by acquiring all of its shares, which were valued at $44 bn on April 26, 2022, it is not yet done.

    In the conclusion, Elon Musk hasn’t yet acquired Twitter and has instead walked away from the deal after the social media giant failed to provide the correct information about the fake accounts that are there in it. However, hearing this, Twitter went on fire and the management of Twitter replied that they will sue the world’s richest person. Besides, both the parties mutually agreed on a fine of $1 bn, which will be levied on either of them if one of the parties tries to back out from the deal.

    Twitter has, in fact, sued Elon Musk at the Delaware Chancery Court on July 12, 2022, after he moved to end the acquisition undone. The lawsuit reportedly accused Musk of hypocrisy. However, Musk quickly took to Twitter once again and tweeted “Oh the irony lol.” Though Musk didn’t mention anything in his tweet about the deal, it was apparent that it was a response against the lawsuit, considering that Twitter didn’t even give much importance to the acquisition deal back in April 2022. The Twitter deal, which was assigned to Kathaleen McCormick, who looked over as the Chancellor or the Chief Judge of the Court of Chancery, decided to force-complete the acquisition of Twitter by Musk. McCormick already had a reputation of being a “serious, no-nonsense judge,” which was proven even in this case.

    What’s next? Yes, the colossal deal has turned in the direction of dramatically being rolled down to a legal showdown ahead, and the Chancery court’s ruling came in favour of Twitter, where Musk should have to complete the deal. Now, the deal can only go through or it might be pushed further to the higher courts. Twitter, in the meanwhile, has announced that it would hold a shareholders’ meeting on September 13, 2022, when it would have them vote on the approval of Elon Musk’s $44 bn Twitter takeover, as of July 27, 2022.

    Nevertheless, we can simply guess the future of the Twitter-Musk deal and wait for the next updates!

    The Present State of Twitter

    Twitter has been a really famous social media. It is simple to use, has great implications and use cases and people just love it. It is a great platform for sharing news and the most famous thing is, sharing opinions in limited words. This was a clever idea that worked really well, to build a platform that will allow users to type out their opinions and put them on a social wall that can be accessed from everywhere.

    When we compare this social medium with other famous platforms like Instagram, we will notice that this is completely different. Instagram is solely focused on photos and videos (mostly small). On the other hand, Twitter is a niche website, which can be exactly defined as a microblogging website. It is the words that count here. And of course, even though there are options for photo and video sharing on Twitter, it is heavily verbal and non-central. Instagram is visually appealing, while Twitter works as more of a community place of common ideas and interests.

    If we look at Twitter from a business perspective, there is space for that too. Twitter is most commonly used as community management and customer service platform. Most of the companies in the world operate their community services on Twitter and they are really responsive to queries customers ask. This popular social media platform is on the brink of being acquired by Elon Musk, who would then be summed up as the private owner of Twitter. Elon Musk had initially threatened to blow up the Twitter acquisition deal worth $44 bn. In response to the same, a Twitter stakeholder has reportedly mentioned the need for a judge, who would eventually order the microblogging site to turn over internal papers in relation to the spam and fake accounts. The Twitter deal of Elon Musk worth $44 bn was then approved unanimously by the Twitter board, as per reports dated June 21, 2022. However, there were lingering doubts about the actual deal still because Twitter shares lost their price, which dipped far below the price that Musk offered initially. Also, there were significant doubts that Elon Musk indicated about the debts and the spam and fake Twitter accounts, which Twitter is claiming to be less than 5% of the monetisable daily active users. All of these didn’t satisfy Musk, who decided to terminate the deal in the first week of July 2022, citing multiple contract breaches. Now, Twitter might also get acquired ahead by Musk because the Court of Chancery has already asked to complete the deal by force.

    The Expected Future of Twitter

    The series of events has already passed its climax but still hasn’t concluded with Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. Thus, there’s surely more to follow. The likely future of Twitter might be changed in the hands of the colossal entrepreneur and tech tycoon, Elon Musk if the deal goes through. To change is to say at least, if not a drastic change. The first such change was noticeable already, even before Musk placed his bid to acquire Twitter in full, which was the approval of Musk’s request for the addition of the ‘Edit button’ on Twitter. Twitter said that it will be adding the edit button soon, which is already in its testing phase. However, on Musk’s walking away from the acquisition deal, it would rather be a not-so-anticipated legal battle that we would be seeing ahead. Brace yourselves because the deal can go either way now. The Twitter-Musk acquisition is now a long legal story that has the preliminary judge’s ruling in favour of Twitter!

    Conclusion

    Twitter is a famous place to put out opinions and ideas with the aid of words. This is the sole reason that makes it universally famous. Concise wordsmiths love it and are super users of this app. It is not a surprise to hear that Elon loves it too. In a tweet, Elon even mentioned that half of his tweets are from his porcelain throne, which is hilarious and maybe true.

    For those wondering, porcelain throne is a slang term that refers to the toilet seat. This person, who is the CEO of Tesla and a very unpredictable person, is now also looking to be the owner of Twitter after buying the largest stake in the company. This sets the hopes of Twitter users to the roof, or we should say to the moon. Elon is unpredictable and is often the centre of controversies. The future is surely unpredictable for Twitter but will be exciting indeed.

    As we follow the news more, we get to see that this story is not going to end in a small, tiny tale manner but is probably the beginning of some big shifts in one of the biggest companies in the world. As of now, Twitter still doesn’t stand acquired by Elon Musk. The story has more twists and turns than a Nolan movie. No one can really tell where this story is going to go next but this game of thrones is getting really unforeseeable and interestingly legal.

    FAQs

    Is Elon Musk on the Twitter Board of Directors?

    No, Elon Musk was offered to join the Twitter board but Tesla CEO denied the offer and instead offered to buy out Twitter, which he is still enthusiastic about.

    Is Elon Musk active on Twitter?

    Yes, Elon Musk is one of the most active people on Twitter and his tweets are quite influential.

    Did Elon Musk buy Twitter?

    Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion. As of the recent updates Musk plans to buy out 100% stakes in Twitter for $44 billion in an all-cash deal, which is pending still.

    When did Elon Musk buy Twitter?

    Elon Musk hasn’t bought out Twitter yet.

    Is Twitter a public or a privately-owned company?

    The popular social media platform is not still a privately-held company.  

  • How Tesla Became the Biggest Name in the Automobile Industry?

    The Automobile Industry is one of the giants in the global economy. It has been around forever and has gone through its fair share of changes and innovations over the years, however, one of the most influential and sustainable innovations is that of Electric Vehicles.

    And although this concept floated since its invention by Robert Anderson in 1832, it was put into the mainstream spotlight by Tesla in 2008 with its first Electric Car, the Tesla Roadster. No major company thought of taking up this concept before it was in many ways made cool by Tesla despite it being incredibly sustainable and way ahead of its time.

    Many experts in the industry have speculated about the EV Concept and as a result, Automobile Industry as a whole would not have been such a hot topic if Tesla was not the driving force behind it.

    Although Tesla has not seen a profitable year yet, it has had many profitable quarters and sticks to its vision of making Electric Vehicles affordable for almost everyone.

    On 1 July 2020, exactly 17 years after its incorporation, Tesla became the world’s most valuable automaker with a market capitalization of $206 Billion, surpassing Toyota. But how did Tesla start? Who was behind it? What makes this futuristic company different from the rest? Where will it be after 10 years? Let us find the answer to these questions.

    History of Tesla
    Musk’s Four Round Investments
    Marketplace and Stocks of Tesla
    Different Strategies Implemented by Tesla
    Vehicle Models
    The Journey of Tesla to Emerge as the World’s Most Successful EV Brand
    How Tesla Is Dominating the Ev Industry?
    Problems With Tesla Models and the Future Ahead

    History of Tesla

    The founders of Tesla- Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning
    The founders of Tesla- Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning

    Originally known as Tesla Motors, Tesla was co-founded and incorporated on 1 July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. The influence behind Tesla was GM’s failed attempt at EVs in 2003 despite the vast potential and high efficiency of battery electric cars.

    The third employee was Tom Wright and in February 2004, Elon Musk whose name today is almost synonymous with Tesla contributed $6.5 Million and became the chairman of the BOD. Martin Eberhard was appointed as the CEO and JB Straubel joined in May 2004. After a lawsuit settlement in September 2009, all three original employees can call themselves co-founders.

    Tesla’s initial goal was to start the production of premium sports cars for early adopters and after securing a respectable customer base, move into the mainstream vehicles like sedans, Trucks, and luxury cars. The first car produced by Tesla was the Roadster in 2008.

    Musk’s Four Round Investments

    Elon Musk- the current CEO and the largest investor in Tesla
    Elon Musk- the current CEO and the largest investor in Tesla

    First Round

    The Series A Investment in February 2004 included Company Technology partners along with different ventures and private investors.

    Second Round

    The second round investment was worth $13 Million and it included the addition of Valor Equity Partners to the funding team.

    Third Round

    The third round investment was co-led by Musk and various technology partners. It consisted of $40 million in May 2006 along with Tech Partners. This round also included investments from Google, and eBay among others.

    Fourth Round

    The fourth round of investment included another $45 Million in internal investment and the total investment went up to $105 million through private financing.

    Marketplace and Stocks of Tesla

    Tesla launched its initial public offering (IPO) on NASDAQ, the second American car company after Ford Motor Company to do so.

    Tesla became the world’s second most valuable automaker with a market capitalization of $104 Billion and on 1st July 2020 the most valuable by reaching the milestone of $202 Billion.

    Despite the above milestones, Tesla has not seen an overall profit in any financial year. At the end of 2019, it posted a loss of $862 Million on revenue of $24.6 Billion.

    However, this fact is often overlooked as Tesla leans towards a societal concept rather than a profit-making one.

    Different Strategies Implemented by Tesla

    Business Strategy

    Tesla follows a typical business strategy like the technological sector, i.e, targeting early adopters with a high price and gradually lowering the price as they move on to the bigger markets. For example, Tesla’s First model, Roadster was of a lower volume and higher price compared to Model X and Model Y.

    Production Strategy

    Like Musk’s other projects, Tesla’s production strategy includes high degrees of Vertical Integration which is rare in the automobile industry, as companies outsource most of the components from their suppliers.

    Sales and Marketing Strategy

    Instead of a conventional dealer network, Tesla opts to sell its vehicles online through company-owned showrooms. It offers the customers an option to customize their desired vehicle. Tesla does not rely on a heavy advertising policy Elon Musk with his massive Twitter following is an unofficial marketing manager.

    Technological Strategies

    Tesla relies on heavy electrical technologies to get its production done. As a vertically integrated company, they design batteries, motors, glass, and innovative models like Autopilots.


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    Vehicle Models

    The first model of Tesla- Roadster
    The first model of Tesla- Roadster

    As of 2020, Tesla sells three car models, Model S, Model X, and Model Y.

    The Unveiled models include Roadster 2020 and the highly awaited Cybertruck. These products have different versions to them based on affordability. Musk said that there will be more innovative models down the road which would be more affordable than the current ones.

    Unfortunately, there will be no Tesla Motorbike.

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    The Journey of Tesla to Emerge as the World’s Most Successful EV Brand

    There are several car manufacturing companies found across different parts of the World. However, when we talk about Tesla, it does stand out from the rest of the companies due to the initiation of something different.

    Tesla is quite popular for its EV model cars which have created a path for Tesla to emerge as the World’s most successful brand.

    To achieve this tag, Tesla made every step resourceful. Tesla brand was started with a sample model featuring cars with a high cost and few models. This invention was to just ensure that myth revolving around the EV cars can find their dissolving points. For the start, Tesla manufactured just 500 units in a year and was responsible for many revolutionary programs.

    The next model introduced by Tesla was about changing the manufacturing units to a greater scale and on contrary, it decreased the price of the model. This model was a great way to give head-on competition to the other luxury brand models.

    Tesla also connects directly with its customers rather than depending upon the franchisee network. Tesla sells its products directly to customers and has a web-type global network to get it settled as a global brand.

    Tesla mainly focuses on the customer buying experience to get more recognition from people. Several showrooms and galleries are placed at multiple locations by Tesla to have a much-organized system.

    Tesla Showroom
    Tesla Showroom

    Apart from this, Tesla has a good marketing strategy and a well-developed plan to sell its brand. Tesla also has a good financing backup and a few well-known investors. All these things make it possible for Tesla to emerge as the World’s most successful EV brand.

    How Tesla Is Dominating the Ev Industry?

    We can assume that Tesla is dominating the EV industry based on the fact that the EV sales of Tesla are approximate 2.3 times higher than that of other brands as per Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas. The rate of growth observed by Tesla in the EV industry is almost double that of any rival brand.

    If we look at the Tesla market in the US, it is safe to say that the EV market in the US is highly dominated by Tesla for years now. For that instance, the EV cars of Tesla accounted for 79% of the overall rate of new cars registered in the US during 2020 and 69.95% of the newly registered car for the year 2021.

    If to believe the available facts and data, it can be estimated that Tesla will still keep on dominating the EV industry for a few more years but with the condition of increasing competition.

    US Electric Vehicle Sales
    US Electric Vehicle Sales

    Problems With Tesla Models and the Future Ahead

    A 2025 Tesla Model S
    A 2025 Tesla Model S 

    Despite having an innovative approach and putting customer satisfaction ahead of profits, Tesla has come up short on various aspects.

    The durability, handling, and repairs cost are some of the quality-related problems that come with a Tesla model. The repairs and maintenance costs are very high and as a result, so are the Insurance costs. Apart from this, Tesla repeatedly comes up short in meeting deadlines regarding production, but this can be attributed to their decision on Vertical Integration.

    Whatever the case may be, the company fixes some of its flaws with every new model and with its futuristic.


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    Conclusion

    Tesla is the first brand to introduce electric vehicles on the roads. The models designed by Tesla also stand out from others due to their characteristics. Tesla created a safe way for the EV models to run on roads and also made them available at cost-effective prices.

    With its uniqueness, Tesla is now dominating the EV industry and has successfully evolved as an EV brand across the world. The above article contains information like the history of Tesla, Investors and stock shares of Tesla, strategies planned by Tesla, the future of Tesla, and a few other basic information.

    FAQs

    Who are Tesla’s competitors?

    Tesla’s competitors are Rivian Automotive Inc. (RIVN), Lucid Group Inc. (LCID), XPeng Inc. (XPEV), Li Auto Inc. (LI), etc.

    Why is Tesla so famous?

    Tesla is majorly famous because of its cutting-edge technology involving battery technology and electric powertrain.

    Is Tesla the biggest car company?

    The company is the biggest in the world and can be defined in many aspects. If we talk about the profit, then yes, Tesla is counted among the eight largest car companies across the world.

    What is the rank of Tesla in the world?

    Tesla falls at the rank of 65 on the “Fortune 500” list for the year 2021.

  • Top 10 Interesting Facts About Elon Musk You Might Not Know

    Elon Musk is famously known for Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company. Who can forget his weird tweets that shake the Bitcoin market? He has a habit of getting into the news.

    Recently, Musk was again in the spotlight for buying Twitter worth $44 billion. Musk had a rollercoaster ride in the past before becoming an icon. Although many people don’t know a lot of interesting things about this multi-billionaire. If you are one of them then this article is a must-read for you. Today, we bring the top 10 interesting facts about Elon Musk that you have not heard until now.

    1. Elon Musk Tried to Sell Tesla to Google
    2. Apple Got an Opportunity to Buy Tesla
    3. Travelling at the Top Speed of 750 Mph in a Floating Pod
    4. Turned his House into a NightClub to Pay For Rent
    5. Elon Musk Dropped out of Stanford
    6. Elon Musk’s First Startup
    7. Invented a Space-Themed PC Game at the age of 12
    8. Bought a James Bond Submarine Car for $997,000
    9. Started his Own School in SpaceX for his Children
    10. Robert Downey Jr Met Musk for Inspiration

    1. Elon Musk Tried to Sell Tesla to Google

    Elon Musk is popularly known for Tesla. The company which is producing futuristic electric cars is now making billions of profit. But, could you imagine Tesla being in the hands of Google today?

    In 2013, when Tesla was nearly bankrupt Elon Musk tried to sell the electric automobile giant to Google. Musk was an old friend of Google CEO Larry Page. So, he asked his friend to buy Tesla for $6 billion.

    Musk also had some other demands like Google would additionally provide $5 billion for factory expenses. He also demanded a guarantee from Google that they won’t shut down the company unless they make a third-generation electric car. Musk also wanted to run the company as its head for eight years.

    Although this deal never really happened. If Google had bought Tesla then Musk would have made so much loss that you can’t even imagine.

    2. Apple Got an Opportunity to Buy Tesla

    Elon Musk also tried to sell Tesla to the tech giant Apple too. In 2018, during the Model 3 program Musk was facing a massive production issue. At that time Musk tried to have a meeting with Apple boss Tim Cook to discuss if they can buy Tesla (for one-tenth of the current value). Although Tim Cook refused to have a meeting.

    3. Travelling at the Top Speed of 750 Mph in a Floating Pod

    Hyperloop
    Hyperloop

    The concept is known as Hyperloop. In 2013, Musk popularised this concept by publishing it in a white paper. Hyperloop is an ultra-speed ground transportation system which consists of sealed and partially evacuated tubes and passengers travel in pressurized vehicles, popularly called pods. These pods don’t have regular wheels and instead float on air skis.

    4. Turned his House into a NightClub to Pay For Rent

    In 1992 Musk was studying at the University of Pennsylvania on scholarship. During that time he and his roommate, Adeo Ressi, rented a house off-campus and turned it into a NightClub and charged $5 per person. They would have 500 people which means that the party was done on a large scale. Ressi said that Musk wasn’t a big drinker and instead used to play games alone in his room.

    Elon Musk with his friend Adeo Ressi
    Elon Musk with his friend Adeo Ressi

    5. Elon Musk Dropped out of Stanford

    In 1995, when Musk was 24 years old he entered Stanford for PhD program in physics. Although within 2 days he dropped out of Stanford. He felt that the internet has a lot more power and that’s why after dropping out he launched his first company Zip2.


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    6. Elon Musk’s First Startup

    In 1955, Musk with his brother Kimbal launched their first Startup: Zip2, online web software that created online city guides for newspapers. Compaq Computer Corporation bought this company for $350 million.

    Zip2 Logo
    Zip2 Logo

    In 1999 Musk used some of this money to develop X.com, an online bank. In 2001 the company was renamed PayPal. Later, in 2002 eBay bought this company for $1.5 billion. Although in 2015, PayPal became an independent company.

    7. Invented a Space-Themed PC Game at the age of 12

    Blaster Game by Elon Musk
    Blaster Game by Elon Musk

    Elon Musk was obsessed with space from his childhood itself. At the age of just 12, he made a code for a space shooter PC game named ‘Blaster’. He sold the game code for $500 to a PC magazine.

    8. Bought a James Bond Submarine Car for $997,000

    Lotus Esprit
    Lotus Esprit

    In 2013, Elon Musk bought James Bond’s classic submarine car, Lotus Esprit for $997,000 at a London auction. This car was featured in the film, ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’. In the movie, the car transforms into a submarine and fires missiles.

    When Elon got to know that the car in reality doesn’t turn into a submarine he was disappointed. Musk said that he will integrate a Tesla electric powertrain into the car and make it transform into a submarine for real.

    9. Started his Own School in SpaceX for his Children

    Musk felt that the regular schools were not training the students in the right way. He feels that students should be taught about problem-solving. In 2014, Musk started his own school in SpaceX named ‘Ad Astra’, Latin for ‘to the stars’.  SpaceX employees’ children can also study in this innovative school.

    In this school students are not grouped according to their age. Musk said that every student has a different aptitude and abilities and that’s why education should cater to their needs instead of forcing them to learn at the same speed as other students. There is no grading system and everything is taught in a form of games.

    10. Robert Downey Jr Met Musk for Inspiration

    Elon Musk in Iron Man 2
    Elon Musk in Iron Man 2

    When Musk made his MCU debut in Iron Man 2 people speculated that Musk was the inspiration for Tony Stark. This is because Robert Downey Jr’s character has a lot of resemblance to Elon Musk. Both of them are multi-billionaires who are freaking geniuses.

    Although Iron Man director Jon Favreau cleared these rumours by saying that the character of Iron Man is based on comics. Robert Downey did meet Musk to know how it would feel like to be a real-life Tony Stark. Both of them had a chat and discussed different interesting things. The scene where Tony Stark meets Musk was shot in SpaceX.


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    Conclusion

    We hope that you got to know some unknown interesting facts about Elon Musk. The guy had done so many weird and incredible things before becoming a multi-billionaire. Tell us in the comments which interesting fact about Musk fascinated you the most and did we miss out on any other fact.

    FAQs

    How did Elon Musk get so rich?

    When Elon Musk sold PayPal to eBay he secured a $100 million payout which is used to start SpaceX and then later joined Tesla.

    How much money does Elon Musk make?

    The net worth of Elon Musk in 2022 is  $273 billion which means he earns an average of $432 million per day.

    How smart is Elon Musk?

    Elon Musk has an IQ of between 150 and 155. To up in this perspective, Albert Einstein had an IQ of 160. This shows that Musk is very intelligent.

    What did Elon Musk invent first?

    In 1955, Musk with his brother Kimbal founded Zip2, online web software that created online city guides for newspapers. This company was sold for $350 million to Compaq Computer Corporation. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank which later became PayPal. In 2002, eBay bought this company for $1.5 billion. Although in 2015, PayPal became an independent company.

  • How Elon Musk Became the Richest Man in the World

    The Tesla and SpaceX chief, entrepreneur Elon Musk has become the world’s richest person, with his net worth crossing $200 bn, following a surging Tesla stock, as of September 27, 2021. Musk becomes the third person in the world to have ever crossed the 200 billion dollar mark.

    Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who was the first to reach the impossible $200 billion worth of valuation in August 2020, had suffered a decline in his fortunes by $1 billion and is no longer the richest man in the world. Bernard Arnault, Chairman and Chief Executive of LVMH was the next person in the world to achieve the same. Musk eclipsed them both to be worth $203.4 billion at the close of the markets on 27th September, Monday. Tesla’s shares were trading high for four months now, which went up by 2.2% at $791.36, the highest that the shares have traded since February 2021.

    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk

    Musk’s huge personal fortune comes mostly from owning 22.4% of Tesla and 54% of the space transportation company SpaceX. Musk’s net worth has grown over $200 billion – possibly one of the fastest instances of wealth creation in history. Amazon’s share price has witnessed a 0.6% decline on the same day, which catapulted the position of Elon Musk.

    About Elon Musk
    How Elon Musk Became the Richest during the Pandemic?
    Past Works of Elon Musk
    Companies Founded by Elon Musk
    Future Plan of Elon Musk

    About Elon Musk

    Early Life and Family

    Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. His mother is Maye Musk, a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, but raised in South Africa. His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer. He has a younger brother who was an early business partner of his, Kimbal (born 1972), and a younger sister, Tosca (born 1974), the CEO of the video streaming site Passionflix. During his childhood, Musk was an avid reader.

    At the age of 10, he developed an interest in computing while using the Commodore VIC-20. He learned computer programming using a manual and, by the age of 12, sold the code of a BASIC-based video game he created called Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for approximately $500.

    Education

    Musk attended the University of Pretoria for five months. Once in Canada, Musk entered Queen’s University in 1989, avoiding mandatory service in the South African military. He left in 1992 to study economics and physics at the University of Pennsylvania; he graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in economics from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences.

    In 1994, Musk held two internships in Silicon Valley during the summer: at an energy storage start-up called Pinnacle Research Institute and at the Palo Alto-based start-up Rocket Science Games. In 1995, Musk was accepted to a Ph.D. program in energy physics/materials science at Stanford University in California. He ended up dropping out of Stanford after two days, deciding instead to join the Internet boom and launch an internet startup instead.

    Elon Musk has been reading a lot of books from his childhood. He grew up reading a couple of books in a day. He still reads a lot. Elon provide quite a lot of wisdom in his interviews or through his quotes. This is where he supposedly learned so much about entrepreneurship, science and life in general.

    How Elon Musk Became the Richest during the Pandemic?

    The title of world’s richest person an extraordinary run for Musk and Tesla, even during a pandemic. At 10:54 ET, Tesla Inc’s shares were up 5.65% or 42.75 points at $798.73. A 7.9% rally in the electric carmaker’s share price on Thursday boosted Musk past Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos. Musk has said he has little interest in material things and has few assets outside his stakes in Tesla and SpaceX. Musk also passed Bill Gates earlier in November 2020 to become the second-richest person in the world. Increased rally in Tesla’s share price, which surged 743% last year with consistent profits, inclusion in the S&P 500 Index, and enthusiasm from Wall Street and retail investors alike.

    World Richest Person
    World Richest Person

    Tesla produced just over half-a-million cars last year, a fraction of the output of Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. Musk will have to show within the next five years that Tesla can make more profits than just about the whole of the rest of the motor industry combined to justify the valuation.

    “I want to be able to contribute as much as possible to the city on Mars,” Musk said. “That means just a lot of capital.”

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    Past Works of Elon Musk

    The Tesla CEO saw his wealth grow in 2020 by more than $150 billion, in large part because Musk owns a lot of Tesla stock — about 20% of the company. Musk pulled the company out of the so-called “production hell” and dramatically increased sales of its electric vehicles.

    The billionaire CEO’s stock stash continues to grow, especially after he signed a major 10-year compensation package with the company in 2018 that further tied his earnings to Tesla’s stock price and revenue goals.

    Musk was criticized for repeated attempts to keep Tesla’s plant open and then for bringing workers back onto the line as covid-19 raged, and cases were even reported inside Tesla’s facilities. Tesla’s stock appeared to have bottomed as well as concerns about Musk’s leadership. By 2019 Tesla faced concerns over demand, mounting losses, and a shortage of cash — and its stock dropped to a near-term low around June 2019. Analysts warned the stock could be valued too highly as Tesla took the title of the world’s most valuable automotive company.

    Musk‘s success hasn’t been limited to earth. In May he oversaw the successful launch of a pair of NASA astronauts into space with his other company, the aerospace outfit SpaceX. It was a landmark achievement for the company that aimed to show rockets could be deployed and reused, demonstrating the viability of a new era of space travel with the ultimate goal of flying humans to Mars.

    Musk made his fortune early on with PayPal, which he co-founded and whose sale to eBay led him to pocket $165 million. He invested in Tesla in 2004, a year after its founding, and maintains around a 20% stake in the company.

    Musk founded SpaceX two decades ago, setting his sights on Mars and aiming to disrupt an industry deeply entrenched in the government with a private venture focused on human spaceflight. Musk’s wealth stood at $37 billion in 2020. That means Musk added at least $148 billion more to his fortune over a year. The growth in Musk’s portfolio over a year is more than the entire net worth of the world’s third-richest person, Bill Gates, according to Bloomberg’s figures: $132 billion.

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    Companies Founded by Elon Musk

    Zip2

    In 1995, Musk and his brother Kimbal along with Greg Kouri started Zip2, a web software company, with money raised from a small group of angel investors. Zip2 allowed for two-way communication between users and advertisers. Users could message advertisers and have that message forwarded to their fax machine. One Zip2 product was called “Auto Guide“. AutoGuide connected online newspaper users with the local dealership or private party car sellers.

    X.com and PayPal

    In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, online financial services, and e-mail payment company, with US$10 million from the sale of Zip2. One year later, the company merged with Confinity, which had a money-transfer service called PayPal. The merged company focused on the PayPal service and was renamed PayPal in 2001.

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    SpaceX

    Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to reduce space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has developed several launch vehicles, as well as the Dragon cargo spacecraft and the Starlink satellite constellation (providing internet access), and has flown humans to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Dragon 2.

    Tesla

    Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company. According to Musk, the purpose of Tesla is to help expedite the move to sustainable transport and energy, obtained through electric vehicles and solar power. Tesla ranked as the world’s best-selling plug-in and battery electric passenger car manufacturer in 2019, with a market share of 17% of the plug-in segment and 23% of the battery-electric segment. Tesla’s global vehicle sales were 499,550 units in 2020, a 35.8% increase over the previous year. In 2020, the company surpassed the 1 million mark of electric cars produced.

    SolarCity

    SolarCity Corporation is a subsidiary of Tesla, Inc. that develops and sells solar panels and solar roof tiles. By 2013, SolarCity was the second largest provider of solar power systems in the United States. In 2012, Musk announced that SolarCity and Tesla would collaborate to use electric vehicle batteries to smooth the impact of rooftop solar on the power grid.

    Hyperloop

    On August 12, 2013, Musk unveiled a concept for a high-speed transportation system incorporating reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors. Hyperloop One, a company unaffiliated with Musk, announced in July 2017 that it had its first successful test run on its DevLoop track in Nevada, which had lasted 5.3 seconds and reached a top speed of 70 mph.

    The Boring Company

    In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company after growing frustrated with traffic in Los Angeles and the limitations of 2-D transportation networks. The startup aims to create subterranean tunnels that allow pedestrians, freight, utilities, or autonomous electric vehicles to circumvent traffic on surface roads to more directly get from A to B. The Boring Company has also made news by selling 20,000 flamethrowers to consumers, which made the company $10 million in revenue.

    In 2016, Musk co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology start-up company to integrate the human brain with artificial intelligence. The company is centered on creating devices that can be implanted in the human brain, with the eventual purpose of helping human beings merge with software and keep pace with advancements in artificial intelligence. These enhancements could improve memory or allow more direct interfacing with computing devices. The company wants the devices to give people the ability to communicate via text or speech synthesis, surf the web, or to express their creativity through photography, art, or writing apps.

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    OpenAI

    OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory co-founded by Musk in December 2015. OpenAI is seeking to build a machine with human intelligence while prioritizing transparency and safety. The tool, dubbed “the API,” allows businesses to directly access OpenAI’s powerful general-purpose text generation AI, which has been trained on trillions of words from the internet.

    Future Plan of Elon Musk

    • Musk tweeted in January that the goal of his Starship transportation system to Mars will be to launch each of SpaceX’s reusable Starship rockets about three times per day, on average, while carrying a 100-ton payload on each flight.
    • Musk might narrowly complete a Tesla Gigafactory in China around 2020, which would begin EV production by 2021. The plans to build a manufacturing plant in China goes hand-in-hand with the country’s efforts to have more EVs on the roads by 2030. Together with a Gigafactory, Tesla also plans to put up 1,000 superchargers in China.
    • Musk plans to send a SpaceX rocket to Mars, with cargo only, by 2022, according to the SpaceX website.
    • A second mission, which would take more cargo and crew, is targeted for 2024. Musk has also said he’ll send a million people to Mars by 2050.
    • Musk talks about his evolutionary plans for a 3D Network of underground tunnels to alleviate traffic congestion. “Traffic affects people all over the world and it takes away so much of your life,” he explains.
    Underground Tunnel
    • All transportation, except for rockets, will be powered by electricity.
    • The Boring Company, Musk’s tunneling venture, aims to reduce the costs of tunnel construction.
    • In February 2018, Musk said SpaceX no longer had plans to certify that rocket for human spaceflight and it would use its Big Falcon Rocket for tourism instead. The trip is now scheduled to come as soon as 2023.
    • Humans will have brain-computer interfaces as soon as 2025.
  • Business Model of SpaceX | How does SpaceX makes money

    When it comes to life and Mars, what’s better than Elon Musk’s SpaceX? Yes, SpaceX is an absolutely dedicated space organization founded by Elon Musk. The work and agendas of SpaceX towards the exploration of space and manufacturing satellites and rockets for better communication during the exploration.

    Elon Musk founded this organization to complete his mission of bringing life to Mars. He holds the vision of bringing humanity to multiple planets in the universe. Besides SpaceX, Elon Musk also founded the extremely popular and successful Electric vehicle and clean energy company, Tesla. His compassion towards both of these prominent companies is Splendid.

    ‌‌SpaceX is the company that is taking aerospace manufacturing to a next level of evolution. The company manages all the aspects required for building rockets and satellites but also, keeps the finances superior over the contemporaries.

    Today, SpaceX is a well-established reliable brand that commercializes space-traveling, pretty affordable and fascinating. Although SpaceX is still a private organization, it manages to be incredibly successful in exploring space travel.

    With the immense success of SpaceX, people often wonder about the business model of the company. And that’s what we are discussing in this article. Let’s begin!

    About SpaceX
    What are the top launch facilities operated by SpaceX?
    Competitors of SpaceX
    Target Audience of SpaceX
    Business Model of SpaceX
    How does SpaceX make money?
    FAQ

    About SpaceX

    ‌‌SpaceX, the incredibly reliable brand which is officially termed Space Exploration Technology Corporation aka SpaceX. The company is an American aerospace producer as well as space transportation services provider, headquartered in  Hawthorne, California, United States.

    ‌‌Elon Musk founded this tremendous company in 2002, with the aim of minimizing the cost of overall space transportation and enabling humanity on Mars. SpaceX is known as the first-ever private organization that funded the liquid-propellant rocket- Falcon 1, to reach orbit and successfully recover back.

    SpaceX is an enormous part of the space transport industry. The company transformed the industry by minimizing the cost of manufacturing a satellite or rocket and brought back the usage of boosters.

    ‌‌SpaceX is entirely based on three subtle offers, that is, Accessibility, performance, and brand status. These hold the biggest fraction behind the success of SpaceX.

    What are the top launch facilities operated by SpaceX?

    ‌‌SpaceX has achieved some remarkable success in the exploration and production of space transportation. The company operates the top four launch facilities, that are:

    • Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40)
    • Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A)
    • Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E)
    • Brownsville South Texas Launch Site

    Competitors of SpaceX

    ‌‌SpaceX aims to be the first-ever company to operate commercial space travel. The founder, Elon Musk sets the goal to colonize Mars. With its enormous success, the company has dozens of competitors in the market who are willing to finance space travel commercially.

    ‌‌The biggest competitor of SpaceX is Virgin Galactic by Richard Branson and Blue Origin by Jeff Bezos. However, SpaceX is backed by the government of the United States that’s why it ought to be on top.

    Target Audience of SpaceX

    ‌‌SpaceX entirely targets the government and few private companies across the globe. The establishment of SpaceX is based on bringing life on Mars, that’s why its ultimate goal is to serve the complete mankind with its mission of space travel.


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    Business Model of SpaceX

    ‌‌The first-ever private company that gained the official license from NASA, for launching payloads and humans to space, is SpaceX. The company was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 that makes space travel absolutely affordable. SpaceX follows a very distinct business model along with bold successful strategies.

    Elon Musk believes that the only possible way to colonize Mars is to count on endurable and scalable transportation methods. SpaceX is growing tremendously and getting ready to carry people to Mars.

    ‌‌Since 2002, after the launch of the company, SpaceX has performed dozens of space launches. As of 2020, the company launched 26 missions. SpaceX combines a set of distinct sectors such as aerospace suppliers, manufacturers, subsidiaries, and distributors.

    SpaceX is working towards developing the next level of space transportation by reusing rockets in order to make traveling possible for people and cargo around the orbit of the earth. The achievements of SpaceX are contemplated as the first for any private company.

    How does SpaceX make money?

    ‌‌SpaceX is an extremely successful aerospace company that generates its money by shipping rocket missions to space and directing satellite plans for its clients.

    Last year, in 2020, SpaceX sent two NASA astronauts to the International space station through its reusable rocket, Falcon 9. This was known as the first-ever commercial manned launch.

    In fact, the company signed 15 different commercial missions, estimated to the worth $80 million per launch. The company would earn around $1.2 billion in revenue through this.

    ‌‌SpaceX aims to launch such a rocket that can carry civilians and travel them in Space. The ticket price for this is yet to be disclosed but the estimated value is above millions.

    ‌‌Moreover, SpaceX sells beta access to Starlink projects at the price of $99 per month with a one-time asset of router and disk at $499. The company has also aimed to expand its internet services to airlines.


    Conclusion

    ‌‌The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, SpaceX has redefined the whole aerospace manufacturing and space travel transportation services and offers with its incredible technology usage. The company aims to make space travel commercial and minimize the total expenditure on manufacturing rockets and satellites. SpaceX is a globally recognized and well-established company with a distinct business model, which is surely beneficial for investing. Stay tuned for more updates!

    FAQ

    Who is the CEO of SpaceX?

    Elon Musk is the founder and current CEO of SpaceX.

    What is the valuation of SpaceX

    The valuation of SpaceX is $74 billion as of 2020.

    How much of SpaceX does Google own?

    Google owns around 8.33% of SpaceX.

  • What are Regulatory Credits and How Tesla made it a Business?

    TESLA’s dependence on Regulatory Credits that shot up their revenues in the last four quarters has been yet again under scrutiny and this time the critic is the American investor and hedge fund manager Michael Burry, who’s betting against Tesla and its strategy of monetizing from the regulatory credits. The investor is long puts against 800,100 shares of Tesla, as revealed in the filing with SEC.

    Burry in a tweet (now deleted) said that TESLA’s reliance on regulatory credits to earn more profits concerns him and also bet against the EV maker betting that Tesla shares will go definitely go south.

    In a regulatory filing with the U.S Security and Exchange Commission, Burry revealed a short position against Tesla worth $534 million. “The Big Short” also mentioned that Tesla might be impeding the company’s long-term prospects by relying on profits generated from regulatory credits.

    In this article, we will be exploring what are regulatory credits and how Tesla has made it the company’s alternate medium to generate revenues.

    What are Regulatory Credits?
    How Tesla generates revenue from Regulatory Credits?
    Business Model of Tesla
    How does Tesla Benefit from Regulatory Credits?
    Regulatory Credits in other countries
    FAQ

    What are Regulatory Credits?

    In a pledge to reduce carbon emissions, governments around the world have introduced incentives for electric vehicle manufacturers to develop environmentally friendly, low carbon-emitting cars. Every car manufacturer has to develop a certain number or percentage of eco-friendly cars in order to avail these credits.

    Regulatory Credits are like subsidies provided by the State of California and 13 other US states in the country for regulating factors that are responsible for environmental pollution which include: zero-gas emission, greenhouse gas, clean fuel, and carbon emission.


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    How Tesla generates revenue from Regulatory Credits?

    The governments issue regulatory credits to vehicle manufacturers. Auto manufacturers require to produce a certain number of Zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) to obtain these credits. If they fail to comply at the end of the year, companies are levied with hefty fines.

    Since Tesla has an all EV line-up, it stacks up surplus credits. These credits are tradable and therefore other automakers buy these credits from Tesla to avoid an excessive fine. For example, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV has reportedly committed to buying $1.2 billion worth of regulatory credits from Tesla to comply with the new European environmental regulations going into effect from 2021.

    In the last quarters, Tesla’s revenue grew by 46% YOY from $7.38 billion to $10.74 billion. This revenue isn’t just from auto making and leasing cars. A significant portion comes from the sale of regulatory credits.

    Business Model of Tesla

    Tesla has three business segments that generate revenue: Automotives, Energy, Services, and others. Automotive revenue include sales and leasing. Further, under automotive sales, we have new vehicle deliveries, autopilot, supercharger networks, and self-driving cars.

    Another segment under Automotives that fuels the revenues is the sales of regulatory credits. When complied, this figure aggregates Tesla’s total sales revenue.

    Tesla’s regulatory credits sales have been increasing YOY at a CAGR of 57% between 2012 and 2021. A record high for the company, Tesla’s regulatory credit sale revenue rocketed at nearly $1.6 billion last year.

    Tesla Revenue from Regulatory Credits
    Tesla Revenue from Regulatory Credits

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    How does Tesla Benefit from Regulatory Credits?

    Regulatory credits can be availed with zero to a negligible cost and can be sold with a 100% profit margin. Over the decade, Tesla has been stacking up on huge amounts of credits as it has surplus credits over the required compliance. It made $428 million last year’s second quarter from selling regulatory credits alone.

    Regulatory Credits in other countries

    Other than the US states, Tesla has its business in China and Europe who have emission rules along the same lines. China has been steadily progressing in the emission-free cars campaign since 2019 and Tesla is bound to receive the green credits.

    In Europe, the lawmakers stated that the average emission of carbon dioxide from cars must not exceed the limit of 95 grams per kilometer. Europe is aggressively pushing the development of cars that emit less than 50 grams of CO2 per kilometer.

    FAQ

    How does Tesla get regulatory credits?

    Regulatory credits are provided by the State of California and 13 other US states to Tesla.

    What are regulatory credits?

    Regulatory Credits are given by the state and federal government for contributing zero pollution to the environment.

    How much does Tesla make selling carbon credits?

    Tesla sells regulatory credits to other carmakers, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV has reportedly committed to buying $1.2 billion worth of regulatory credits from Tesla.

    Conclusion

    In 2020, Tesla reported a regulatory credit revenue of $1.6 billion breaking all prior records. When we look at all the quarterly reports, Tesla seemingly isn’t generating profits from its automotive sales and is rather relying on the sales of regulatory credits which has in fact helped Tesla stay afloat.

    In the fourth quarter of 2020, Tesla’s CFO was asked about the sustainability of revenues coming from regulatory credits for 2021. In an interview with CNBC, he stated “What I’ve said before is that in the long-term regulatory credit sales will not be a material part of the business and we don’t plan the business around that,” he said at that time. “It’s possible that for a handful of additional quarters it remains strong. It’s also possible that it’s not.”

    Tesla’s net profits went south amounting to $600 million without the regulatory credit revenue in its first quarter in 2021.

    Burry and other financial experts are predicting that selling regulatory credits won’t be a winning move for Tesla in the long run as most of the automakers will get into EV line-ups either with the fear of compliance or for the sake of the environment.

  • Reason Why Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using bitcoins

    Recently Tesla had announced that it would accept the cryptocurrency bitcoin as a payment method for the purchase of their electric vehicles. But now the company has announced that it has suspended the use of bitcoins for the sale of its electric vehicles. Let’s look at the reason why Tesla stopped accepting bitcoins as a payment for their electric vehicles.

    Tesla suspends Bitcoin payments
    Environmental harm through Bitcoins
    The solution
    FAQ

    Tesla suspends Bitcoin payments

    On 12 May 2021, Tesla had announced that it would stop accepting bitcoins for the purchase of its electric vehicles. This update was conveyed by the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk just after a month when the company had announced that it would start accepting bitcoin as a payment method.


    Elon Musk had shared a statement on Twitter that conveyed the message saying that the move from the company is suspending bitcoin as a payment method is due to environmental reasons. He added that as a result, the company will no longer accept bitcoins as a payment method for their cars.

    The statement shared by Elon Musk reads the message which says Cryptocurrency is a good idea based on many levels and we believe that it has a great potential and future. He added that but it cannot come at a great cost for the environment.

    Bitcoin price drop
    Bitcoin price drop

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    Environmental harm through Bitcoins

    The environmental harm mentioned by the company refers to the emissions that are generated because of the use of fossil fuels for the mining of bitcoins. Tesla has conveyed that they are concerned about the increased continuous use of fossil fuels especially coal for the transaction and mining of bitcoins. Coal is considered to have the worst emission compared to any other fuel.

    The underlying reason is that bitcoin mining requires a huge amount of computing prowess which is usually met by computers that are really powerful with the latest features. The increase in the popularity of bitcoins and cryptocurrencies has led to an increase in the mining of these digital coins which makes it harder for the miners and they would opt for more powerful computers.

    This in turn increases the operations as well as the consumption of the energy through fossil fuels. These machines will require a lot of electricity for their running. It is noted that bitcoin mining operations around the world collectively use around 120 terawatt-hours of energy in one year. This is equal to the energy that is consumed by an entire country.

    Some of the environmentalists have been informing about the environmental harm caused due to the increase in cryptocurrencies for a very long time. The situation for the environment is expected to get worse as days passed and Tesla has apparently realized this fact.


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    The solution

    The point which should be noted is that cryptocurrencies are considered to be bad for the environment only if it uses the electricity that is generated through fossil fuels. If the energy that is used to mine the cryptocurrencies are generated through coal it is expected to have a huge impact on the environment.

    It is to be noted that if the same amount of energy can be provided or generated through solar energy, the impact on the environment will be neutralized and cryptocurrencies will no longer be a harm to the environment.

    Tesla had already provided a hint about this solution in its statement. They had mentioned that the company is planning to use its USD 1.5 billion worth of bitcoins in the future only when the energy is generated through a sustainable source.

    This means that if the environmental conditions are met, the company is more likely to start accepting bitcoins as a payment source in the near future.


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    FAQ

    Does Tesla accept Bitcoin?

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the car company will no longer accept Bitcoin as a payment for car purchases.

    How many Bitcoins does Tesla have?

    Tesla holds around 38,300 Bitcoin that cost around $1.329 billion.

    Why is Tesla not accepting Bitcoin?

    Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin due to climate change concerns, its CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet.

    Conclusion

    Tesla is said to be looking for another cryptocurrency that uses only 1 % of the energy used by bitcoins for transactions and operations. The new Tesla payment option for the buyers shall be the cryptocurrency if it is to double down on one.

  • How to enter Elon Musk’s $100 Million Competition

    Elon Musk who is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX had recently announced a new competition on the World Earth Day which is on 22 April 2021. The competition is hosted by XPrize and Elon Musk had entered as the chairman of XPrize in order to announce about the competition. Let’s look at what exactly is the competition about and How to enter the competition.

    About Elon Musk
    The Musk Foundation
    Elon Musk’s $100 million competition
    Evaluation of the competition
    Awards
    XPrize Foundation
    FAQ

    About Elon Musk

    Elon Musk is one of the richest people in the world. He was born in 1971 in South Africa. He is an engineer, industrial designer and a business magnate. He is the founder of SpaceX, The Boring Company, and X.com. He is the co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAi and Zip2. He is the CEO of Tesla and the chairman of Solar City.

    The Musk Foundation

    The Musk Foundation is a private grant-making foundation. It was founded in the year 2002 by Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk. They provide grants for renewable energy research, science, and engineering education, human space exploration research, the development of safe Artificial Intelligence to benefit humanity, and pediatric research.


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    Elon Musk’s $100 million competition

    On World Earth Day, Elon Musk had announced about a USD 100 million competition which is based on Carbon Removal. The main aim of the competition is to motivate innovators around the globe to come up with an idea to seize the carbon durably and sustainably.

    According to the competition’s website, they require the innovators to come up with a large-scale project that will pull the Carbon-di-oxide directly from the atmosphere and oceans and should be able to seize it in a durable and sustainable manner. The competition is for the time frame of 4 years.

    Elon Musk $100 million Competition
    Elon Musk $100 million Competition

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    Evaluation of the competition

    The winners of the projects will be based on proving by the team that their project can remove at least around 1,000 tones of carbon-di-oxide yearly and model their costs on a scale of 1 million tones on a yearly basis.

    The teams will also have to show a way to achieve a scale of gigatons on a yearly basis in the future. The eligibility criteria for the competition are that the project should be based on any carbon negative solutions according to Elon Musk and the Musk foundation as the competition is funded by them.


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    Awards

    The judges will review the submissions within one year of the competition and award up to 15 prizes with the prize money of up to USD 1 million each. The judges will later select one grand prize winner after four years who will receive an amount of USD 50 million. The judges will also select 3 runners up and they would receive an amount of USD 30 million each.

    XPrize Foundation

    XPrize Foundation is a non-profit organization. The organization was founded in the year 1994 and is located in California, the United States. The organization was founded by Peter Diamandis. Some of the notable trustees of the organization are Larry Page, James Cameron, Ratan Tata, and many more.

    The Foundation designs and hosts public competitions. The main aim is to encourage technological development which is focused on benefitting humanity.

    Marcius Extavour who is the Vice President of Climate and environment at XPrize said that climate change poses a greater threat in 2021 and it should be very clear to everyone that our Carbon-di-oxide emissions are the major reason for the cause.

    He added saying that the prize is about the development and deployment of solutions that can be carbon negative as the race is to get to net zero.

    You can visit XPRIZE’s Website to register for this competition.

    XPRIZE Website
    XPRIZE Website

    FAQ

    What was Elon Musk’s first project?

    Elon Musk founded X.com in 1999 (which later became PayPal), SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003.

    What is the net worth of Elon Musk?

    The net worth of Elon Musk is 17,260 crores USD as of 2021.

    Does Elon Musk drive a Tesla?

    Musk is usually seen driving around in his Tesla Model S or the Tesla Model X

    Conclusion

    The main aim of the competition will be to remove carbon-di-oxide from the atmosphere and to turn the theoretical ideas into practical solutions. This will be a great platform for the innovators to showcase their ideas and towards making them practically possible.

  • Side Projects of Elon Musk

    The South African-born American entrepreneur Elon Musk, (born June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa) cofounds PayPal as an electronic payment firm, and creates SpaceX, the launch vegetable and spacecraft manufacturer. He has also been one of the first major investors in the electric car manufacturer Tesla as well as Chief Executive Officer.

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    Early life

    Musk came from a father from South Africa and a mother of Canada. He showed early computer and entrepreneurial talent.  In 1988, Musk left South Africa after obtaining the Canadian passport because he refused to support apartheid by the military and because he wanted the greater economic opportunities available in the United States.

    Early Talent
    Early Talent 

    After his studies, he joined Stanford University, but after just two days bravely dropped out with his brother to launch Zip2’s first company. Zip2 just arrived to help companies get online at the start of the Internet boom.

    Musk then sold his Zip2 share to co-found X.com in 1999, with the millions raised, and PaysPal was later merged. Despite disagreements and dismissal of Paypal as a CEO as the larger shareholder in 2000, eBay earned millions of dollars in the $1.5 billion deal acquired by Pay Pal to kick off the Musk Revolution we know so much today. An impressive amount of business plan, start-ups and side projects is acquired by the billionaire, each working on revolutionizing.

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    Elon Musk Side Projects:

    1. The Boring Company

    The Boring Company Logo
    The Boring Company Logo

    The Boring Company (TBC) develops safe, fast-to-dig, and low-cost transport-, utilities and freight tunnels. The company was founded by Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX. Our Loop service is planned to be the fastest and best system ever.

    It can be claimed that the Dull Business was recognised more for its name or whacky goods (not least “Not A Flamethrower”) than the brilliant piece of work before the enthusiastic presence of Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan Experience padcast. The name is taken from its key function: bore tunnels and was created in 2016 as a result of the frustration of traffic, as revealed by Elon Musk on Twitter.

    This organization installs tunnels and infrastructures in crowded cities to alleviate pollution. Building contracts in Chicago, Los Angeles, and California are still in place.

    2. Hyperloop

    Hyperloop Logo
    Hyperloop Logo

    In a white paper written by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX in 2013, Hyperloop is an ultra-high-speed land transportation system planned for passengers and freight. It consists of partially evacuated tubes and high-speed passenger and cargo capsules.

    Some found the most ambitious development of Hyperloop Musk yet, which is a major assertion if you believe it succeeds in space and creates thirty-layer long tubes. Hyperloop is a proposed mode of transportation, according to Elon Musk, for 380 plus miles of journey from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 35 minutes.

    When do you expect this to happen? With a tunnel, the rail system is built that can operate with reduced drag 800 miles per hour. Currently, Hyperloop is still much in its planning stages, although there were first leaks.

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    3. Solar City

    SolarCity Logo
    SolarCity Logo

    SolarCity is an Elon Musk initiative that we as makers of renewable and energy-saving goods keep tight to our hearts. It was not clearer that Elon shared our view of a better world – and our mission to contribute to it – than SolarCity.

    The brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive created SolarCity in 2006 on the basis of a recommendation of their cousin Elon Musk, chairman and promoter of the organization for a solar business idea. The installed solar panels could produce 440 megawatts (MW) of power by 2009.

    SolarCity is the second-largest solar panel supplier in the USA, an affiliate of Tesla. It pushes the big step towards self-consuming electricity, just as we do at myenergy, from its long-lasting glass to its transparent solar cells.

    Neuralink Logo
    Neuralink Logo

    Elon Musk wants to have brain surgery among everyone. In fact, he needs everybody to have a brain implant — Neuralink, his company’s brain-machine interface. He says that he will overcome several conditions – paralysis, fear, and addiction. He says that it can.

    Scientists must understand even more about the brain and how it can be realized from all other theories. The brain is still enigmatic, and problems like fear and depression are still uncertain about their physiological origins. In the new video from Verge Technology, we discuss what Neuralink might do and what aspects of Musk’s ideas need more science.

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    4. Open AI

    OpenAI logo
    OpenAI logo

    Musk has been worried about the possible risks of artificial intelligence for some time now. The organization has for several years warned that AI represents the biggest existential danger for human life, as does the technology “invoking the demon.” In the light of this strong position with respect to artificial intelligence, it was a little interesting that Musk announced in December 2015 the launch of its own AI research firm. Open AI is funded by investments of more than $1 billion and focuses on the protection and responsibility of evolving AI technologies.

    By making it available to all, Musk insists that this is the way for major businesses who wish to take advantage of the invention for their own financial benefit.

    His Successful Projects:

    1. Spacex

    Spacex Logo
    Spacex Logo

    “SpaceX designs and manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft,” founded in 2002 with the aim of revitalizing global interest in space exploration while massively lowering costs. The reusable Falcon Strong, the world’s most efficient operating rocket that holds approximately 64 kilograms, is now mastered by Elon Musk and SpaceX’s 6000 employees. It arrives in February 2018 after his successful test flight.

    With the Falcon 1, a two-stage liquid-fuel craft, the organization entered the arena to bring small satellites into orbit. The Falcon 1 was much cheaper in terms of design and functioning than its rivals, a spacecraft sector mostly dominated by publicly owned and government-funded businesses like Lockheed Martin and Boeing. The SpaceX-developed Merlin engine, a cheaper alternative to those used by other firms, made part of rocket economic efficiency feasible. SpaceX also aimed at making reusable warheads

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    2. Tesla

    Tesla Logo
    Tesla Logo

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    Elon Musk had a profoundly positive influence on the automotive industry alongside original Tesla designers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. In addition to what once was the limited, unchanged, and increasingly under deployed electric and hybrid vehicles market, he has accelerated towards a more competitive future.

    Tesla Motors started with the roadster and proceeded with the X, S and Model 3, which will be in the immediate future. In each model, competitive demand has grown to build their own electric and hybrid cars and the increasing promise of petrol and diesel replacements is illuminated more clearly.

    Tesla has changed the story well and truly in terms of renewable technology on the highways, manufacturing cars capable of driving up to 315 miles with only one charge and hitting 0-60 mph in 2.9 seconds.

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    The failures faced by Elon Musk

    We all know that Elon Musk is an utter visionary with unbelievably better ideas than other citizens. In a recent interview with Joe Rogan, Musk said it was nearly like a curse that he had so many valuable ideas that he always failed to concentrate on a project.

    On the other hand, we are also mindful that on a number of occasions the South African contractor has struggled, many of which include extremely problematic scenarios. Yet Elon Musk seems to be still at the forefront of all the adversities and all the odds.

    Therefore, I wanted to speak about these failures and demonstrate how Elon repeatedly overcomes the most destructive blows and uses the lessons to boost his company:

    1. Netscape Denial and Ousted at Zip2

    Elon Musk did not give up
    Elon Musk did not give up

    When Elon first started out, he applied to a variety of new tech firms, including Netscape, without success. He created a searchable business directory named Zip2 in view of these rejections, which was effectively an online equivalent of a telephone book.

    It might now sound like a very easy concept, but at a time when the use of computers was still very limited, this was groundbreaking. Sadly, in the early years, Zip2 failed and most founders showed little interest in financing the idea.
    In 1996, however, Zip2 finally obtained some much-needed funding, but Elon Musk was ousted as the company’s CEO and given a much smaller role. The entrepreneur chose, after great success, to move forward to focus on a brand-new project that would be the beginning of what we all know as PayPal.

    2. Paypal Was Initially Voted ‘the Worst Business Concept of the Year’

    Believe it or not, as it was launched as authentication software for the PalmPilot and other mobile devices, PayPal was voted the worst business concept of the year in 1999. Musk and co-founder Max Levchin, however, continued to concentrate on building an online wallet that was beginning to gain momentum. Eventually, PayPal received funding to grow this project and the business went public in 2002.

    Conclusion

    It’s true that Elon Musk is not only a genius, considering his many mistakes, but also an extremely ambitious human with a burning desire to excel. Although Tesla and Space X are sure to enjoy a prosperous future, it is a tribute to his character that we can clearly not doubt or imagine what the next South African will do!
    The media’s tendency to run through the mistakes as an entrepreneur is one thing we should not all skip over. Never doubt, though, as an upcoming entrepreneur. And when you do make it, they will already be off for your achievements.

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  • Tesla’s Long Awaited Launch In India

    In the automobile industry across the globe, Elon Musk’s Tesla is the leading brand that manufactures Electric Vehicles and the company plans to revolutionize its cutting-edge innovations. Elon Musk announced earlier officially, that he intends to launch Tesla vehicles in India over the coming years.

    After Tesla’s CEO made this announcement official, Maharashtra Tourism and Environment minister, claimed that he held a video conference with Tesla executives and have invited them to their state. India minister claimed that Musk’s firm belief in sustainable and environment-friendly growth has made him active in bringing the electric vehicle maker in the country and established a fanbase in Indian states.

    On the contrary, Elon Musk replied on Twitter to a tweet from an Indian profile which wrote, “Next year for sure”. However, Musk did not specify any official date or timeline for the proposed launch yet. It is worth noting that Elon Musk announced the plan to launch the company’s vehicles in the country in the year 2018.

    Musk’s company, Tesla has been experimenting with super and advanced technologies to develop more environmental friendly vehicles that help in protecting environment.


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    In the world’s second most populated country, India, pollution has always been a challenge to overcome over the years. The government’s initiative to bring the EV company in the country will aid in environmental protection and increase in number of jobs. The government also has to look in terms of the demand production of the EV company.

    The fact of establishing EV in the country is that their sales are essential, but more important is setting up a manufacturing plant in India. Due to the global pandemic, high and raging unemployment has reigned supreme in the country.

    If Tesla established the production setup in the country, it will boost the economy by increasing the citizens’ job opportunities. The Indian government would take a step towards the future of tech in the automobile industry, starting with Tesla.

    Elon Musk's tweet about the Tesla's launch in India
    Elon Musk’s tweet about the Tesla’s launch in India 

    Challenges for Tesla’s Launch in India

    Tesla has been monitoring the Indian market for quite some time now but has been unsuccessful due to some reasons like lack of infrastructure, policies, and the market for electric vehicles.

    In the year 2019, the government has lowered the custom duty on EV commodities and parts to around 5%. Pre-assembled EV components will attract almost 15% taxation whereas the ones assembled in India will attract 10% taxation.

    And at the same time, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes had withdrawn the exemption of customs duty for EV batteries, to boost the company’s products in India, which might help the Indian EV system and the government’s Make in India initiative in the longer run.

    However, the plan couldn’t get through and only the base has been set, there hasn’t been any major development in EV and its parts manufacturing in India, especially the ones that will be competent for Tesla’s technology.

    Even though several Indian startups are looking to speed up the process, the timeline is still not defined. Addition to these, with the lack of technology, there is also a lack of infrastructure to accommodate EV on Indian roads.

    Tesla's Top Models
    Tesla’s Top Models

    Musk had spoken about India’s strict vehicle import policies earlier. India’s increasing duties on vehicles has delayed Tesla’s entry into the Indian market. Additionally, India’s inadequate EV infrastructure and the low per capita income may have also influenced the California-based carmaker’s decision.

    Elon Musk‘s tweet in 2019 read, “I am told duties are extremely high in India (up to 100%) even for electric cars. This would make our cars unaffordable.

    As per a report the transactional market size of electric vehicles is expected to be $7.2 Billion in 2026 and 2030 respectively, with 97% of total EV transactions to be in the commercial vehicle segment by 2030.

    Developing charging infrastructure is another difficulty that the company will have to cross. Tesla model 3 which is a complete package in a car, has 50 kWh battery pack which can cover around 355 kms. The government of India is targeting the year 2030 by which it plans to go all-electric in terms of new car sales in the country.

    There is hope from the Indian government on making charging points throughout the country to push the go green movement. Buyers may also face the problem of not getting the workshops throughout the country as the company would be just setting up in India. As the vehicles are fully electric, no common mechanic can even try to fix it.

    If Tesla comes to India they may also face the problem regarding the price of the cars as the price of Tesla cars starts from Rs 35 lakhs. The Tesla cars will be under the luxury section of vehicles, so the customers who will buy will be only the privileged section of India.

    Conclusion

    The final line must be that if Tesla comes to India, it has to take a greater risk not only in terms of competition but it also has to deal with the purchasing behaviour and nature of Indian people. If the company is aiming to establish their roots in the Indian environment it does need to look through the fact that the number of electric cars sold in India in a year is much less than other countries.