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Elon Musk is a South-African born Canadian-American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, born in 1971. He was a co-founder of PayPal, which was sold to Ebay for $1.5 billion. He then founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Tesla Motors. He is chief executive and chief designer at SpaceX and CEO and head of product design at Tesla and chairman of Solar City. Musk purchased Twitter in September 2022.

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21 Nov, 2024

Bezos: Musk’s ‘sell Tesla, SpaceX’ claim ‘100% not true’

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In response to Musk’s claim that Bezos said Trump would win and that people should sell Tesla and SpaceX stock:

Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock

Bezos responds, saying it is not true:

Nope. 100% not true.

Musk then says he stands corrected:

Well, then, I stand corrected

23 Mar, 2023

Musk: Saudi, UAE investments in SpaceX ‘not true’

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Musk denies the report that investors from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates plan to invest in an upcoming multi-billion dollar funding round for SpaceX.

Not true

30 Oct, 2022

Musk: NYT Twitter severance payouts story is ‘false’

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Musk denies a story by The New York Times [link] that he plans to lay off employees before the start of November to avoid having to make special payouts as part of their compensation deals.

This is false

11 Oct, 2022

Musk denies Putin talk

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Musk denies he talked to Putin about Ukraine, or on any topic outside of space

No, it is not. I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space.

When asked if he would have a talk with Putin about the Ukraine conflict, he says:

Pointless, as there is currently no overlap between Russian and Ukrainian demands – it’s not even close