The boss of Tesla responded to the environmentally friendly girl
In the early morning of January 1st, Swedish environmental revolution teenager Greta suddenly focused her interest on the "standard bearer of new energy vehicles " Boss Ma and his Twitter. What's going on?
The cause of the incident was that the new Twitter CEO Elon Musk called the environmentally friendly girl " cool" because she recently had a date with the Internet celebrity anchor Andrew Tate, who was recently arrested by the Romanian police for ordering a "fishing pizza".
Musk wrote on his platform: " The amount of brand awareness Greta has gained in a few years is astounding. I think she is really cool. "
Twitter influencer, Kanye's guest, and network anchor Andrew Tate recently focused his satire on the environmentally friendly teenager and her fans. He tagged the Swedish revolutionary in a tweet and boasted that his collection of "33 famous cars " also produced "huge emissions." And criticized the young revolutionary’s green efforts on the Internet.
Greta naturally would not give in. She publicly ridiculed the internet celebrity and called on him to come and compete with her, but he provided a fake and insulting email address to the anchor.
The 36-year-old Internet celebrity later posted a video in which he wore an "unenvironmentally friendly" Versace (Versace) robe, smoked an "unenvironmentally friendly" cigar, and received two boxes of "high carbon emission food" from Jerry's Pizza, a well-known Romanian chain. In the video, Mr Tate questioned Ms Greta's gender and mocked her actions over the years, saying "it's a shame she taught me that my vehicles were powered by dead dinosaurs...". Apparently, a social media war ignited between fans on both sides.
For Musk, the online war between Greta and all "not environmentally friendly" activists is good for him as the CEO of Twitter. After all, Twitter is a social platform, and traffic is more important than anything else.
Moreover, Greta and her fans’ hostility to fuel vehicles has precisely made them allies of Tesla. There's no way he doesn't like this girl (and the team behind her).
Musk set a world record during the siege
On January 1, 2023, English media focused on Musk, who fell from the throne of the world's richest man, saying that he set a world record: the businessman with the most losses in the world in hundreds of years.
According to reports from Bloomberg and New York Post , billionaire and former richest man Musk broke a new record.
According to Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index (Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index), the Tesla CEO became the first person in history to lose a net worth of trillion US dollars.
In 2021, the 51-year-old Musk defeated Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and became the richest person in the world through Tesla's best-selling. But the good times did not last long. Since he made a series of "incorrect" remarks in 2022, and was locked up by Twitter when he spent 50 billion in one breath because he was worried about being harmed, his assets have shrunk rapidly.
According to Forbes statistics, Musk's net worth reached its peak in November 2021. At that time, Tesla's stock market performance was strong and sales were rapidly expanding in China and the United States. The wealthy businessman's worth reached US$340 billion.
however. As Tesla's stock price evaporated by 70% in the past year, Musk's wealth plummeted to 137 billion..More than 200 billion U.S. dollars, equivalent to the GDP of a medium-sized European country (Finland or Romania), have disappeared inexplicably... This is not only the worst year for this electric car manufacturer so far. It was also the worst decision of all in Musk’s entire legendary life.
Regarding the new round of asset evaporation, the " Wall Street Journal " reported that the news from Shanghai also hurt Musk: The surge in new coronavirus pneumonia cases forced Tesla to temporarily suspend production at the Shanghai Gigafactory. Tesla's stock price plummeted again since last Tuesday.
In a New Year's Eve open letter sent to employees two days ago, the billionaire thanked all employees for their "excellent performance" throughout the year while downplaying the company's poor performance.
According to CNBC, Boss Ma told his subordinates: "Don't pay attention to the madness of the stock market."
" As our Tesla continues to perform well, the market will eventually realize this. " (But Musk ignored one point: if several forces came together to short Tesla, it would not be the market performance that affected the stock market)
Earlier this month, Musk's former title of "the world's richest man" was snatched away by LV's French chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault. Judging from the current trend, the stock prices of more than 70 luxury brands under Arnault's name have not fallen significantly. The ones that suffered the most in the stock market crash at the end of 2022 were Silicon Valley technology stocks. Therefore, Musk, at least on the surface, no longer expects to regain this crown.
Musk's historic losses show how quickly his and Tesla's assets have soared during the virus pandemic.
According to Bloomberg, although Tesla only accounts for a small part of the electric vehicle market, as of October 2021, Tesla's market value actually exceeds 1 trillion , and is on par with other technology giants such as Apple , Amazon and Google parent company Alphabet. But Tesla’s global sales simply cannot compare with Apple.
But as competitors quickly caught up and challenged Tesla's dominance in the electric vehicle market, especially Buffett supported BYD and defeated Tesla in the Chinese market, Musk quickly turned his attention to the profitability of social giant Twitter.
However, in order to go from quietly buying Twitter shares to sitting on the top of the "largest stock " and transforming into a tycoon buying out the entire Twitter board of directors, he had to repeatedly cash out from Tesla in exchange for enough US dollars to take over Twitter. But his 120 million fans don’t seem to be able to monetize his traffic quickly. Until now, even if he has achieved the goal of collecting $8 per month for all added V accounts, his Twitter is still losing money.
At the same time, as Buffett’s BYD share ratio exceeded Musk’s Tesla shares, the battle became Musk’s direct confrontation with Huajie’s strongest financial force. If he continues to indulge in Twitter’s technology research and development department, Tesla’s life will probably only get worse.
Musk’s biggest problem is probably not that he offended White House dignitaries with his nonsense (both presidents were pissed off by him). His problem is that ten He has to manage technology companies in different fields, and he is still managing them. The way of management is not autonomous, but personally responsible for the research and development field... This makes it very difficult to strike a balance. Twitter's dilemma is just the tip of the iceberg. Sooner or later, the brain-computer interface company will become another breach in Musk's empire. He currently owns a transportation company, an infrastructure company, an aerospace company, a mobile phone company, a social platform, a car company, a brain-computer company, and a bunch of technical companies. If he is always in charge of it himself, the efficiency cannot be high. But the biggest question now is whether he can transform from an internet celebrity with 120 million fans back to the former CEO of Tesla.
Author: Talented girl Zheng Hao
