You also had to borrow quite a lot of money and pay interest on that too. Elon Musk (00:18:05): Well that’s partly why it was a $3 billion loan rate. So in rough numbers, a normal year of Twitter would do, let’s say $4.5 billion in revenue and $4.5 billion in cost. I ...
Both men are on the elder side of Gen X (Carlson was born in 1969, Musk in 1971). Both watched their multimillionaire dads (Dick Carlson, journalist and diplomat, andErrol Musk, part owner of the emerald mine his son would later deny existed) enter politics. Both are members of the we...
All of Musk's detractors point to his dads emerald mine for the reason he's so successful but as far as I can tell his dad had zero to do with anything for Elon except mentally abuse him. Pretty sure Musk fled from his father with something like $2k savings of his own money, and...
Jain, Sanya. "Elon Musk Hits out at US Professor over Emerald Mine Claims: 'Idiot and Liar.'"Moneycontrol.com, 21 Sept. 2022, https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/elon-musk-hits-out-at-us-professor-over-emerald-mine-claims-idiot-and-liar-9208281.html. mark_able_jones_. "Elon Mus...
We grew fast and made money. I think that's what you are referring to when you say independently wealthy? That I independently made my money, as opposed to say, inherited an emerald mine. — Halli (@iamharaldur)March 7, 2023 Twitter, under Jack Dorsey, bought Halli’s firm and he sur...
Musk, 53, has said very little publicly about apartheid, the system of racial segregation that became the defining issue of his childhood in the Republic of South Africa. Advertisement His father, Errol — whoinherited wealthfrom half of an emerald mine he used to own — was elected to Preto...
They split when Musk graduated, moved to California and said he couldn’t talk on the phone because it seemed like a waste of time to him, Gwynne said. “We broke up just before he started conquering the world,” Gwynne said. The gold necklace with a small green emerald that...
Elon Musk is a billionaire who laments the life of privilege he inherited through Zambian emerald mine earnings. He is simply too disconnected from the general populace on a material level to have a coherent solution to the problems that affect us possibly....
2.All the Money in the World Ridley Scott initially shot this biopic with Kevin Spacey in the role of billionaire J. Paul Getty. But in between the initial production and the film’s intended release, multiple allegations of sexual misconduct were made against Spacey. In response, less than ...
After Musk became successful, his father even took credit for helping him – to such a degree that it’s listed as fact in Elon’s Wikipedia entry. “One thing he claims is he gave us a whole bunch of money to start, my brother and I, to start up our first company [Zip2, which...