Elon Muskis currently living a nomadic lifestyle.
The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the revelation in a Sundayinterviewwith TED head Chris Anderson, when commenting on wealth disparity in the world today.
Musk, 50, argued that he believes there are “some axiomatic flaws that are leading” these types of critics “to that conclusion,” explaining of himself, “For sure, it would be very problematic if I was consuming billions of dollars a year in personal consumption.”
“But that is not the case. In fact, Idon’t even own a home right now. I’m literally staying at friends' places,” he continued. “If I travel to the Bay Area, which is where most of Tesla’s engineering is, I basically rotate through friends' spare bedrooms.”
“I don’t have a yacht. I really don’t take vacations,” Musk continued. “It’s not as though my personal consumption is high. The one exception is a plane, but if I don’t use the plane, then I have less hours to work.”
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Musk tops the recently releasedForbes' World’s Billionaires Listfor 2022. According to the outlet, he is worth $219 billion, making him the world’s richest person.
Last week, Musk announced he’d"made an offer" to buy Twitter. According to a WednesdaySEC filing, the entrepreneur launched a bid for over $40 billion to buy the social platform. He also told Twitter’s Chairman of the Board Bret Taylor that he wants to take the company private.
“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,” the executive explained.
“However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form,” he argued. “Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.”
Musk also included a pitchto buy the remaining shares of Twitterthat he doesn’t currently own. “As a result, I am offering to buy 100 percent of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54 percent premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38 percent premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced,” he said.
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Musk began the process ofselling his last four California homesin 2020 after he vowed earlier in the year to “own no house” in a statement shared on social media.
“I am selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house,” the businessmantweeted in May 2020.
“Justone stipulation on sale: I ownGene Wilder’s old house. It cannot be torn down or lose any its soul,” he said in a follow-up tweet,writing in anotherof his then-girlfriendGrimes, with whom he shares two children, “My gf@Grimezszis mad at me.”
Grimes, 34, and Musk have since split, and the singer said in a recentVanity Faircover story that the former couple wereliving “in separate houses,“at the time of her interview.
Sheposted on Twitterlast month that “Me and E have broken up again since the writing of this article haha, but he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now.”
source: people.com
