Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc, is thinking of quitting his job and becoming a full-time influencer, the business magnate tweeted on Thursday.
“Thinking of quitting my jobs & becoming an influencer full-time wdyt,” Musk said in the tweet. The richest man on the earth did not elaborate any further.
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YouTube star MrBeast aka Jimmy Donaldson, replyng to Musk’s tweet, said, “I’ll coach u on how to get YouTube views!”
Twitter users suggested that Musk open a YouTube channel. Musk replied to it by saying “noobtoob”.
Elon Musk is the CEO and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc, the founder of The Boring Company and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. He has an estimated net worth of around US$270 billion as of December 2021, making him the richest man in the world.
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The Boring Company, said during a conference call in January said that Musk expects to be the CEO of Tesla for “several years.”
“It would be nice to have a bit more free time on my hands as opposed to just working day and night, from when I wake up to when I go to sleep 7 days a week. Pretty intense.”
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Last month, Musk sole a large sum of his Tesla sold roughly 8.2 million shares in Tesla, worth a total of just over $8.8 billion.
Of those, Musk sold 2.8 million shares worth about $3 billion specifically to pay taxes on three tranches of stock options that he exercised this week, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That means he has sold roughly $5 billion more in shares than he needs at present.