Twitter users decide: Musk should sell ten percent of his shares
The Tesla founder let fans vote on a billion dollar deal. The result is clear.
Will stick to the outcome of the Twitter vote: Tesla founder Elon Musk. (Archive image)
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–Musk holds 17 percent of the electric car group: Tesla showroom in Paris.
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–According to Bloomberg, Tesla founder Musk is considered the richest man in the world.
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Tesla founder Elon Musk had his Twitter followers vote on the possible sale of ten percent of his shares in the US electric car maker – and a clear majority voted for this step. According to the final result published on Musk’s Twitter account on Sunday evening, 57.9 percent of the participants voted for the entrepreneur to sell this share of the shares. However, only 3.5 million of the 62.7 million users who follow Musk in the short message service took part.
The multi-billionaire announced on Saturday that he would stick to the result of the vote – “whatever the outcome”. To justify the online vote, he said: “Lately there has been a lot of talk about unrealized profits as a means of tax avoidance.” Therefore, he suggest selling ten percent of his Tesla shares.
