The owner of this particular car - a Tesla electric sportscar known as the Tesla Roadster - had a message for the rest of us on the number plate of his high-powered electric car. "LOL OIL", the plate reads.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Elon Musk disses Jim Cramer's stock picks live on CNBC
Elon Musk, the millionaire CEO of Tesla Motors, took time to knock the stock picks of Jim Cramer while live on the Mad Money host's own television network, CNBC, during their coverage of Tesla's IPO.
The electric car mogul mentioned Cramer's backing of Bear Sterns (which eventually went bust) as argument that his picks were 'counter-indicators'. "We're no Bear Sterns", he says. You can find the remark at around 0:41 into the clip, which is embedded above. [Via sunnydays020388]
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Elon Musk, Tesla Motors CEO and PayPal founder is so very, very poor
In a Dealbook column entry this morning, it was revealed that despite his fortune when he was thirty eight (it totaled about $200 million) he is now broke.
Musk says that he put his last few millions into Tesla, the company named after a Serbian electrical engineer which is trying (somewhat successfully) to put the sex appeal into electric cars.
The article compares the financially troubled tech baron to the fictional Iron Man character Tony Stark, and reveals Musk's 'liquidity issues'.