Op-Ed: Elon Musk mistook Twitter for the real world, and he hopes that a Tesla car can teach him what it felt like when he first landed on Mars
Elon Musk has had a lot of bad luck, but he would be the first to admit that his biggest misstep was not owning stock in Tesla.
The electric car company that Musk helped turn into a massive and profitable company was worth $5 billion less than it was when it went public in 2012.
He also lost $50 million from selling his stake in Facebook. And he was on the hook for a $230 million loan from his private equity firm.
But he was still $10 billion richer than when he walked away from the company last year.
Musk went on to tell CNBC’s Squawk Box that his biggest lesson was that he was wrong to not own stock in Tesla.
Musk told Squawk Box host Brian Sullivan that he believed he was in the real world, not in a computer simulation that he created in his mind.
“I don’t actually spend all of my days dreaming about an elaborate simulated universe and all the things that could go wrong,” Musk said.
“I spent the majority of my time in this reality building a very successful company in which I am enormously proud.”
Musk said that he would bet anything in that universe that he could “get to Mars in his Tesla and come back in a few minutes, which is my plan.”
Musk told Brian Sullivan that he was not wrong to walk away from the company, but he was wrong for not owning his stock in the company.
Elon Musk and his wife have been quite public about their divorce and their inability to get back into a successful marriage.
Elon Musk and his wife have been quite public about their divorce and their inability to get back into a successful marriage.
In a new interview with the Daily Beast he said that people are so used to expecting their wives to become better mothers and wives after divorce that it’s now difficult for them to imagine any other outcome.
