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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.  

  • Elon Musk: Richest Man In The World [A Case Study]

    Today when we talk about the world’s most influential and richest entrepreneurs, Elon Musk comes to our minds for sure. He has always been in the news, let it be his new venture, his way of working, or his net worth.

    Elon Musk’s tweets catch the attention of the masses; be it Elon Musk naming his baby X Æ A-12, which created a lot of buzz around the globe, or the “How Strange. Well, back to work…” one after Bloomberg announced him the richest person in the world, but only a few know about his life story.

    Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Elon Musk is an innovative business person, financial specialist, and engineer who is one of the most popular entrepreneurs in the world. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship. Elon Musk is the founder, CEO, and lead planner of SpaceX as well as a fellow benefactor, CEO, and item engineer of Tesla, Inc.

    Elon Musk became the Richest Man in the World on January 7, 2021, after Tesla’s share price surged by 7.9%. It helped him to surpass Jeff Bezos. Musk was featured on the top of the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, a list of the top 500 richest people in the world, on 7th January 2021. Musk had added more than $122 billion to his fortune in the year 2021, which pushed his net worth to $292 billion, according to the reports dated October 2021. This made Elon Musk the first person to be the owner of such a huge fortune. Elon Musk’s net worth was then estimated to be $195 billion, which is currently estimated to be over $220 billion. He debuted on the list of the world’s richest persons back in 2012, when his net worth was estimated at $2 billion.  

    The tech tycoon went ahead with a bid to buy out Twitter by acquiring 100% of the Twitter stakes on April 26, 2022, in a deal worth $44 billion. However, the deal is still pending and the popular social media platform is yet to turn into a privately held entity.  

    To know more about the entrepreneur Elon Musk, Elon Musk biography, the answers to “what has Elon Musk studied?”, “what companies has Elon Musk founded?”, “what is Elon Musk famous for?” and more, stay glued!

    Elon Musk – Biography

    Name Elon Musk
    Born June 28, 1971 – Pretoria, South Africa
    Age 50
    Education University of Pennsylvania (BS, BA)
    Occupation Entrepreneur, Engineer, Product Architect, Early-Stage Investor
    Known for Founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; CEO and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; Founder of The Boring Company; and Co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI
    Net Worth $220.5 billion (June 2022)
    Wife
    Children 8
    Website www.tesla.com/elon-musk

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    Elon Musk – Controversies
    Elon Musk – Unknown Facts
    Elon Musk – Quotes
    Elon Musk – Future Plans

    Elon Musk – Early Life and Family

    Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, to a White South African electromechanics Engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant and product developer, who was his father and a Canadian Dietitian and model mother. Errol and Maye Musk divorced in 1980. Though Musk initially started to live with his father in Pretoria and elsewhere immediately after the separation of his parents, Elon later regretted his choice and started to be estranged from his father. Elon Musk has been described as an awkward and introverted child throughout his childhood and he has also been a victim of regular bullies in his school days. In one such incident, Musk was pushed by a group of boys down a flight of stairs and he was hospitalised later.

    Elon Musk – Career

    Elon Musk joined Anglican Sunday school in his youth. He later entered Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario in 1990. He was soon transferred to the University of Pennsylvania after 2 years, from where he graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Economics.

    While still enrolled in his course, Musk then held 2 internships in the summer of 1994 in Silicon Valley, at the Pinnacle Research Institute and Rocket Science Games. He then was accepted as a PhD scholar in Materials Science at Stanford University in California in 1995. However, Musk later dropped out of the course and decided to join the internet boom and launch an internet-based startup.

    Elon Musk – Personal Life

    Elon Musk is the eldest of the three siblings, Kimbal and Toska, who are the younger brother and sisters of Musk. Elon’s adenoids were removed when he was a child because his parents were apprehensive that he was deaf, however, they discovered later on that it wasn’t true. His parents divorced in 1980. After their divorce, though Musk initially gravitated towards his father, he chose his mother later.

    Musk’s marital life started with Justine Wilson, a Canadian author, whom he married in 2000 when he was at Queen’s University. They first had a son, who died of SIDS at 10 weeks. After that, the couple gave birth to a twin and a triplet. Talulah Riley was the second wife of Musk. However, they eventually got divorced and then remarried, and again got divorced for the second time. After ending this marriage, Musk dated Canadian musician Grimes, who later gave birth to a son in May 2020. Their son was named X AE A-XII.  

    How Elon Musk started his Journey?

    Musk developed an interest in computing and video games from a very early age. He acquired Commodore VIC-20 when he was only 10. He started learning computer programming using a manual and successfully sold the code of a BASIC-based video game called Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for $500, which he created, at the tender age of 12.

    At 17, Elon Musk chose to move to the United States for finishing his auxiliary tutoring. Rather, Musk left for Canada and got selected at Queen’s University in Ontario at 19 years old. His calling came when he got a grant from the University of Pennsylvania. Then, he moved to the United States and acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics. He proceeded with his training further, acquiring himself a Bachelors of Science qualification from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

    He started with a PhD programme at Stanford University in 1995 yet dropped out just after 2 days to seek an enterprising vocation. As published in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Elon Musk accepted that the internet, sustainable power sources, and space travel would be the ones having the greatest effect on the lives of individuals in the future.

    As chosen, the three noteworthy subjects of worry for giving his life’s central goal, Elon Musk, alongside his brother Kimbal Musk, began an organization named ‘Zip2’. Elon Musk dropped out of the Applied Physics and Material Science program at Stanford University after two days in the wake of beginning this new pursuit known as Zip2.

    Elon Musk story

    Elon Musk’s Business Ventures

    Elon Musk has evolved different and distinct categories in his comprehensive business field. From automobile miracles to secured money handful-application, from artificial intelligence (AI) research organizations to uplifted propagation throughout the space, Musk has achieved huge feats everywhere with his proficient signature and discretion. Those catalysts of his supremacy are listed below-

    Zip2

    Zip2 Logo
    Zip2 logo

    In 1995, Musk with his brother Kimbal Musk began a web programming organization – Zip2,  with cash raised from a little gathering of holy messenger investors. The organization created and advertised an Internet city control for the newspaper distributing industry with maps, directions, and yellow pages. Zip2 enabled all real print distributions to offer extra business administrations to their clients.

    Musk got contracts with The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. Musk convinced the governing body to devise plans for a merger with CitySearch. While at Zip2, Musk wanted to move toward becoming CEO but the board members opposed it.

    In February 1999, Compaq, a noteworthy web crawler at that point, procured this IT organization – Zip2 for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options. The deal made it one of the greatest money acquisitions in those days. Musk got $22 million for his 7% share from the sale.

    X.com and PayPal

    Elon Musk x.com & paypal
    Logo of x.com and PayPal

    In March 1999, Musk established X.com, an online budgetary administration and email payment company with $10 million from the closeout of Zip2. One year later, the organization merged with Confinity, which had a payment service application called PayPal.

    After merging, they concentrated on the PayPal administration and were renamed PayPal in 2001. PayPal’s initial development was driven essentially by a viral showcasing effort where new clients were selected when they got cash through the service. Musk was removed in October 2000 from his job as CEO because of conflicts with other organization authorities.

    Musk wished to move PayPal’s Unix-based foundation to Microsoft Windows, which was opposed by all. In October 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk got $165 million. Before its deal, Musk, who was the organization’s biggest investor, claimed 11.7% of PayPal’s shares.

    In July 2017, Musk bought the domain X.com back from PayPal for an undisclosed sum, expressing that it has sentimental value to him.

    SpaceX

    In 2001, Musk considered Mars Oasis, an undertaking to send a small test nursery on Mars, in the hopes of revolutionizing the aerospace industry and making affordable spaceflight a reality. In February 2002, Elon Musk came to Russia to search for three ICBMs (missiles), bringing along Mike Griffin. Griffin had worked for the CIA’s investment arm, In-Q-Tel, just as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and was simply leaving Orbital Sciences, a producer of satellites and rockets.

    Kosmotras, a Russian Space Company, offered one rocket for $8 million. But Musk found it excessively costly and refused to purchase it. While on the trip back from Moscow, Musk understood that he could begin an organization that could manufacture the moderate rockets he needed. Musk calculated that the raw materials needed to structure a rocket really were just 3% of the commercial cost of a rocket at the time.

    In 2002, Musk ultimately established SpaceX with the long-term objective of making a genuine spacefaring civilization. With US$100 million of his initial fortune, Musk established Space Exploration Technologies or SpaceX, in May 2002. Musk is CEO and boss of innovation official (CTO) of the California-based SpaceX organization.

    Spacex logo
    Logo of SpaceX

    SpaceX creates and makes space dispatch vehicles with an emphasis on propelling the condition of rocket innovation. The organization’s initial two dispatch vehicles were the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets (a gesture to Star Wars Millennium Falcon) and its first shuttle is the Dragon (a gesture to Puff the Magic Dragon).

    In seven years, SpaceX planned the group of Falcon dispatch vehicles and the Dragon multipurpose spacecraft. In September 2008, SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket turned into the main privately financed fluid-powered vehicle to place a satellite into Earth orbit. On May 25, 2012, the SpaceX Dragon vehicle berthed with the International Space Station (ISS), impacting the world forever as the primary business organization to dispatch and compartment a vehicle to the ISS.

    In 2006, SpaceX was granted an agreement from NASA to proceed with the improvement and trial of the SpaceX Falcon 9 dispatch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft so as to ship freight to the International Space Station. It was followed by a $1.6 billion NASA Commercial Resupply Services program contract on December 23, 2008, for 12 flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon shuttle to the Space Station.

    On December 22, 2015, SpaceX effectively handled the principal phase of its Falcon rocket back at the platform. This was the first run in history such an accomplishment had been accomplished by an orbital rocket. It became the first step towards rocket reusability, bringing down the expenses of access to space.

    In the entire year of 2017, SpaceX launched its eighteen Falcon 9 flights, successfully, which are more than the previous year’s 8 flights. On February 6, 2018, SpaceX effectively launched the Falcon Heavy, the fourth-highest capacity rocket ever built and the most powerful rocket in activity in 2018. The debut mission carried a Musk’s Tesla Roadster as a dummy payload.

    Today, SpaceX is both the biggest private maker of rocket motors on the planet and holder of the record for the most noteworthy push-to-weight proportion for a rocket motor (the Merlin 1D). SpaceX has created in excess of 100 operational Merlin 1D motors. Every Merlin 1D motor can vertically lift the heaviness of 40 normal family vehicles.

    Tesla Motors

    Tesla Logo
    Logo of Tesla, Inc. 

    Tesla, Inc. (initially Tesla Motors) was established in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. They financed the organization until the Series A funding. The two men were actively involved in the company’s development. In February 2004, Musk joined Tesla’s board of directors as its chairman and led the Series A round of investment.

    Musk played a functioning job inside the organization and supervised the Roadster item structure at a definite level, yet was not profoundly engaged with everyday business operations. Following the money-related emergency in 2008 and after a progression of raising clashes in 2007, Eberhard was expelled from the firm. Musk expected initiative of the organization as CEO and item engineer, positions which he holds even today.

    In 2008, Tesla Motors initially built an electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster, with sales of 2,500 vehicles to 31 nations. On June 22, 2012, Tesla started the conveyance of its four-door Model S car. On February 9, 2012, it uncovered its third item, the Model X for the SUV/minivan market but Model X dispatch was postponed until September 2015.

    Tesla’s income in 2018 was $21.46 billion. In 2013, Tesla’s Model S was the first electric vehicle to get the Car of the Year Award by Motor Trend. Over the most recent four months of 2018, Tesla’s US piece of the overall industry was about 2%. It costs $13.66 to completely charge a Tesla Model X at home.

    The general Tesla total assets were evaluated to be $2.2 billion in 2018, dependent on its income and benefits. Nearly 75% of every single electric vehicle sold in the US in 2019’s first quarter were Teslas. Tesla saw an income of $21.461 billion in 2018. The total assets of Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, were $18.1 billion as of May 2019.

    Tesla recently saw a surge of 4.8% in the share price helping Elon Musk surpass Jeff Bezos to become the richest man in the world.


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    Neuralink Corporation is another company of which Elon Musk is the co-founder. Founded in July 2016, Neuralink is a neurotechnology company that is engaged in developing implantable brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). Headquartered in Pioneer Building, San Francisco, California, Neuralink shares its office with OpenAI.

    In an hour-long interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that his neuro-tech company Neuralink is going to launch the first product that can make any brain function as a superhuman AI. San Francisco-headquartered Neuralink is developing implantable brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) or Cyborg that could improve memory or allow for more direct interfacing with computing devices.

    Neuralink Corporation is an American neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk in 2016.  Elon Musk claims that the moto of Neuralink is a human enhancement and the technology, which will be able to merge the computers with the human brain. Thus, it will obtain a symbiotic relationship between the human brain and Artificial Intelligence.

    “ If your biological self-dies, you can upload into a new unit. Literally. It will enable anyone who wants to have superhuman reasoning and intelligence.” – Elon Musk

    Developing such implantable brain-computer interfaces(BCIs) or cyborg will be quite a challenge and to be on top of the game, Elon Musk needs to stay ahead of Neuralink’s competitors with a heavy focus on applied engineering. BCIs must incorporate features that are a thousand times better than the existing interfaces with no surgery, no aesthetics, and definitely no drilling holes in the skull.

    Elon Musk further points out that there has been a significant advancement in the field stating, “I think Neuralink will have something interesting to announce in a few months that’s at least an order of magnitude better than anything else, probably better than anyone thinks is possible.”

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    Elon Musk’s Interview with Joe Rogan

    In early 2017, he made a jaw-dropping revelation stating that robots will disrupt our job scenario and that there’s nothing much that can be done and the competition between the countries with the most sophisticated AI will be the reason for World War 3. Probably to him, the merging seems like a better option which might give a human a better chance of surviving. “The merge scenario with AI is the one that seems like probably the best. If you can’t beat it, join it,” Musk said.

    OpenAI

    OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory that consists of OpenAI LP, which is a for-profit organization, and OpenAI Inc, its parent company. OpenAI is another Elon Musk-founded company, which he founded in December 2015, along with Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman. OpenAI was founded with an aim of promoting and developing a friendly AI that will benefit humanity as a whole. The collective pledging of $1 billion by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others resulted in the birth of the company. It is important to note that Musk has already resigned from the Board of the company in February 2018, but he still remains a donor.  

    The Boring Company

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    Logo of The Boring Company

    In December 2016, Elon Musk founded the infrastructure and tunnel construction services company, The Boring Company is also known as TBC. Musk has experienced difficulty with Los Angeles traffic and limitations with the current two-dimensional transportation network. This led to the inspiration for the project.

    The Boring Company currently has active construction and is planning future projects in the Los Angeles and Baltimore–Washington areas. They have also been selected to build a downtown-to-airport loop by a government program for high-speed transport in Chicago. There have been three boring tunnel projects proposed in the Los Angeles area out of which one test tunnel was completed in November 2018.

    Though The Boring Company was initially formed in December 2016 as a subsidiary of SpaceX, it become a separate and fully independent company in 2018. In this, 90% of the equity was owned by Musk and 6% held by SpaceX in return for the use of SpaceX resources during the initial startup of the company. Outside investments during 2019 have changed the equity split.

    Twitter

    Twitter Logo – A firm owned by Elon Musk

    Elon Musk is one of the most famous tweeps who almost keeps his audience hooked with his Twitter profile. Musk has always been an avid Twitter user and was on the brink of becoming a 100% owner of Twitter, the bid for which he placed on April 26, 2022, where he was looking forward to acquiring 100% stakes in Twitter in an all-cash deal worth around $44 billion. However, he finally turned down the deal, citing multiple breaches of the deal.

    Musk first expressed his interest in buying the platform in 2017. In the wake of 2022, Musk started materialising this dream of his by buying significant stakes in Twitter first on January 31, 2022, which reached 5% on March 14, 2022. He became the largest stakeholder in Twitter on April 1, 2022, owning over 9% of its stakes. Musk then agreed to a deal on April 4, 2022, which prohibited his possession of more than 14.9% of the shares of his company and would assert his joining the board of directors of Twitter. However, Musk decided to not join the board before April 9, 2022, when the appointment became effective. Elon Musk then placed a bid to buy 100% of Twitter’s shares on April 13th at $54.20 per share. This bid was granted by the Twitter board and would have made Elon Musk the owner of 100% of Twitter’s shares in a deal worth $44 bn if Musk didn’t walk away from the deal. There was also a breakup fee of $1 bn if the deal falls apart. Elon Musk threatened to blow up the deal over the bot issue on June 10, 2022, and ultimately terminated the deal in the first week of July 2022. In reply to this, Twitter sued Musk on July 12, 2022.  

    In the case filed at the Court of Chancery, Delaware, the acquisition deal was to be forced to go through, as per the decision by Chief Judge McCormick, thereby being ruled against Elon Musk.

    Elon Musk – Investments

    Elon Musk has 7 investments to date, all of which are personal investments. Here’s a list of the Elon Musk investments:

    Date Name of the Organisation Lead Investor Funding Round
    December 29, 2020 Quarterly Global Yes Series A
    April 29, 2019 Neuralink Yes Series B
    August 25, 2017 Neuralink Yes Series A
    February 9, 2012 Stripe Series A
    March 28, 2011 Stripe Seed Round
    November 15, 2005 Game Trust Series B
    April 23, 2004 Tesla Yes Series A


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    Elon Musk – Awards and Recognition

    Elon Musk is recognised for his fight against global warming and Tesla is one of the examples of it. Some of the awards and recognition that he has received are:

    • For his advocacy, he has received Global Green Award and National Wildlife Federation’s Connie Award.
    • He has received the Entrepreneur of the award of Inc Magazine and is also known as the Living Legend of Aviation by Kitty Hawk Foundation.
    • Musk has also been ranked 1 on Forbes’ Billionaires list. Musk is a receiver of the Axel Springer Award.
    • In 2010, Musk received FAI Gold Space Medal from the Federation Aronautique Internationale.

    Elon Musk – Controversies

    The richest person on the planet has some fair share of controversies as well. Elon Musk is said to be quite blunt with the tweets that often surround him with controversies. Some of them are:

    • Right after he was all set for the Twitter acquisition, Musk said that he will buy Coca-Cola and put cocaine back in the beverage.
    • Musk named the cars from the Model 3 series of Tesla first as Model S, Model E and Model X. However, when Ford allegedly warned Tesla about a lawsuit for using Model E, Tesla changed its name to Model 3, which still made the models together sound like S.3.X
    • Elon Musk smoked weed on the Joe Rogan podcast and was surrounded by memes and controversies
    • Musk joked about sending space dragons with lasers to help Ukraine fight the Russians after an article stated that Musk would send flame-throwing electric tanks to Ukraine    
    • During Canada’s trucker protest, Elon Musk compared Hitler with Canadian President Justin Trudeau.

    Musk got Sued by Twitter

    Elon Musk was legally sued by Twitter for “hypocrisy”, reported The Verge at Delaware’s Court of Chancery on July 12, 2022, after he decided to terminate the Twitter acquisition deal. This opened another chapter of Musk’s life where he will resist his claim in court against the social media giant Twitter.  

    Elon Musk – Unknown Facts

    The richest man is not only unique but interesting as well. Some of the unknown facts about Elon Musk are:

    • When Musk was 12 years old, he created a video game called Blaster and sold it to a magazine.
    • Musk named his son Xavier after the character of Professor Xavier from the movie X-Men.
    • Musk also had a cameo in The Simpsons, along with those in South Park, The Big Bang Theory, Rick and Morty, and more.
    • Musk’s first venture was Zip2 which was created in 1995.
    • Musk doesn’t like Facebook and is concerned about its privacy issues.
    • Elon Musk gets a $1 salary from Tesla.
    • Musk is called Thrillionaire. It means an entrepreneur who is turning reality into science fiction.

    Elon Musk – Quotes

    Some of the most popular quotes from Elon Musk are:

    • When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.
    • Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is a disaster.
    • If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is a failure.
    • People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
    • If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

    Elon Musk – Future Plans

    Elon Musk has never made his desire to make people “multi-planetary animal types”. Colonizing Mars would be a decent start as per Musk. In September 2017, at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide he unveiled his arrangement to send payload delivers there in the following 5 years. By expansion, he trusts that people will settle the planet when 2024.

    Elon’s Hyperloop has been contrasted by him with a “cross between a Concorde, a railgun, and an air hockey table”. The plan is to eventually give a method for a movement that should have the option to surpass 1124 km/h and all underground.

    At present two courses are being developed – between Los Angeles and San Francisco and between New York and Washington D.C. When complete these excursions should take close to 30 minutes utilizing Hyperloop.

    At the point when 12 youngsters and their football (soccer) mentor were caught in an overwhelmed collapse in Thailand, Elon and his group developed an apparently insane thought. The arrangement, clearly, was to construct a tyke-estimated submarine. The sub was structured and worked in record time utilizing extra rocket parts. Regardless of this, the salvage groups esteemed it unrealistic and finished the mission without it. “Pedo fellow” aftermath aside Thai military authorities accept the submarine could have utility in the future.

    FAQs

    Who is the CEO of Tesla 2022?

    Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla.

    When and where was Elon Musk born and raised?

    Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and was raised in Pretoria and the regions nearby the capital of South Africa.

    What did Elon Musk study?

    Elon Musk has a Bachelor’s degree in both Physics and Economics.

    What’s Elon Musk’s IQ?

    Elon Musk’s IQ is estimated to be ranging between 150-155.

    What is Elon Reeve Musk famous for?

    Elon Musk has founded the electronic payment firm PayPal and spacecraft company SpaceX. He is the CEO of the electric-car maker company Tesla. Musk is also the owner of the social media platform Twitter and the world’s richest person, as of April 2022.

    Did Elon Musk acquire Twitter?

    Elon Musk was about to acquire 100% stakes in Twitter and become the owner of Twitter. He asserted to buy out all of the stocks of Twitter in a deal worth $44 billion on April 26, 2022, but then he refused, leaving the deal pending.  

    What companies has Elon Musk founded?

    Elon Musk founded many companies to date including SpaceX, The Boring Company, X.com, Neuralink, OpenAI, and Zip2.

    Did Elon Musk create Paypal?

    No, Elon Musk is not the founder of Paypal, nor did he create it. However, Elon Musk indeed found the company known as X.com. This company later merged with Confinity Inc., which was the creator of the product Paypal.

    Is Elon Musk an entrepreneur?

    Elon Musk is indeed an entrepreneur. The world’s richest person nourished his entrepreneurial dream right after he graduated from college.  

    What companies has Elon Musk founded?

    SpaceX, SolarCity, and Tesla are some of the prominent companies that Elon Musk founded.  

    Is Elon Musk a real person? What is Elon Musk’s academic background?

    Yes, Elon Musk is a real person. Going by the academic background of Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

    How did Elon Musk start his career?

    Elon Musk started his career by dropping out of Stanford University in just 2 days to start his company Zip2.

  • 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.

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    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.
  • Why Tesla is getting into Restaurant Business?

    Tesla which is an Electric Vehicle manufacturing company and that is involved in other businesses such as charging stations, solar roofs, power grids, etc. has now said to enter into the restaurant business. Let’s look at the reason why Tesla would be venturing into the restaurant business.

    Tesla Restaurant – Latest News
    Brand Logo and Trademarks for Tesla Restaurant
    Reason Tesla is Entering Restaurant industry
    Future plans of Tesla Restaurant
    Strategy of Tesla Restaurant
    FAQ

    Tesla Restaurant – Latest News

    Tesla under Elon Musk has recently filed a trademark under its brand in the restaurant industry. This is considered as a sign by the Californian company to venture into the restaurant business. The company has filed an application for three new trademarks with the US Patent and the Trademark office.

    The application was filed on 27 May 2021 which has not yet been approved and will be reviewed during the month of August.

    Brand Logo and Trademarks for Tesla Restaurant

    For the food industry, the company has plans to use its T logo design with two other iterations of the stylish Tesla logo. The company has filed the trade marks for three different categories which cover the restaurant services, self-service restaurant services, pop-up restaurant services and take-out restaurant services.

    Reason Tesla is Entering Restaurant industry

    One of the major reasons for Tesla to enter into the restaurant industry would be because of their charging stations. It is to be noted that, charging their Electric Vehicle would take around 20-30 minutes and people would like to grab a cup of coffee, use the washroom or have something.

    This can be a step towards filling that gap in the charging stations. However, during September 2017, the Chief technology officer of Tesla had announced that Tesla has plans to start a convenience store in their supercharging stations.

    In the year 2019, Elon Musk had announced that he has plans to start a retro fast-food restaurant at one of Tesla’s supercharging stations in Los Angeles. Elon Musk had tweeted saying that he was going to put an old school drive-in, roller skates and rock restaurant at one of Tesla’s new supercharging stations.


    Tesla also have a supercharging station with only lounge in the Kettleman city, which is one of the busiest supercharging stations.

    Tesla's Supercharging Station in Kettleman City
    Tesla’s Supercharging Station in Kettleman City

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    Future plans of Tesla Restaurant

    The year before that Tesla had opened a couple of charging stations that provided snacks and beverages for the car owners who charged in the charging stations. In the same year, an executive of Tesla who spoke at the Foodservice tech conference said that the restaurant business would make sense for the company.

    However, the executive had added that the company did not have any plans to start a restaurant on its own but would want to tie up with partners who are already in the industry.


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    Strategy of Tesla Restaurant

    The application for the trademark signifies that the company has a different strategy and looks like the company is looking forward to creating restaurants under the brand Tesla using the same logo. Recently Elon Musk had tweeted again that he would like to open a retro restaurant at the supercharger station.

    He had tweeted saying that a new supercharging station is coming to Santa Monica in California and that he’s looking forward to having 50’s diners and a 100 best movie clips played. It is to be observed that in order to start a restaurant in Santa Monica California, Tesla had applied for permits during March 2018.


    Conclusion

    Tesla has more than 25,000 supercharging stations around the world. However, the Tesla restaurant concept would attract a lot of attention and is expected to have a significant number of audiences. The company has a wide network and has sold a half a million cars in the year 2020.

    FAQ

    Why tesla is planning to get into restaurant business?

    The reason Tesla might enter into the restaurant business is because of their charging stations, as charging their Electric Vehicle would take around 20-30 minutes and people would like to grab a cup of coffee, use the washroom or have something.

    How many superchargers does tesla have?

    Tesla has more than 25,000 supercharging stations around the world.

    What type of restaurant is tesla planning?

    Tesla has filed trademarks for categories of restaurant services, pop-up services, self-service restaurant services, take-out restaurant services.