For Musk, the world’s richest man and Tesla’s largest shareholder, those are just paper losses. He owns and runs several other companies — among them SpaceX, Twitter, and artificial intelligence startup xAI — so Tesla’s recent decline is just a flesh wound.
Tesla shareholders want Elon Musk to get a taste of his own DOGE medicine. Trump’s government efficiency czar sparked a backlash this past week when he demanded civil servants justify their paycheck by listing five things they accomplished in a week—a tactic he first used to thin the ranks at Twitter.
One voter who probably did both is Elon Musk who contributed $288 million to Donald Trump’s campaign—a drop in the pond compared with the $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits his companies have received from the U.
He may be best known as the founder of SpaceX, the CEO of Tesla and the man who turned Twitter into X, but Elon Musk is famous for his private life, too.
Elon Musk is the world’s richest man. He’s revolutionized electric cars as CEO of Tesla, launched rockets as head of SpaceX and seized control of a social media platform by buying Twitter
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Tesla share value peaked last year at almost $480 but has now plummeted 45% as its CEO has waded into the political arena attached at the hip with Trump.
As for current Tesla owners, some who waited years to get off the waitlist and into a car are now considering offloading theirs (or they already have) because of Musk’s government meddling. “I admired Elon’s vision and his mission for helping to save the planet and finally got one after waiting three years,
People don’t fill out a questionnaire every time they sell Tesla stock, so we don’t know exactly what causes its price to go down. The evidence is strong, though, that Tesla shares trade down when the spotlight shines extra brightly on Musk paying attention to other things.
With Tesla crashing below $1 trillion for the first time since election week, Wall Street may finally be waking up to the likelihood of a weak first quarter for Elon Musk's electric-car company.
Tesla is losing its wow factor. Boss Elon Musk has long relied on hyperbolic predictions to pump up the electric-car maker’s image, and its stock price – from how quickly vehicle production would ramp up,