Elon Musk fell with the door into the clubhouse: “Would you like to talk to me at the clubhouse?” The Tesla boss asked last Saturday via the short message service Twitter to the address of the Kremlin. It would be extraordinary for a company boss to invite an autocratic ruler to chat about his favorite app – if it weren’t for Elon Musk, the Twitter troll among company bosses.
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Hardly a week goes by without the Tesla boss making headlines with his tweets. First he expressed his solidarity with a flash mob of small investors who had fought with the Wall Street establishment on GameStop shares. Then Musk ennobled the cryptocurrency Bitcoin on his Twitter profile – shortly before his company made a billion-dollar investment in virtual coins public. On Friday, he helped Bitcoin to a new record with benevolent tweets. In between, the Tesla boss posted funny dog memes, baby photos and recordings of rocket launches for his space company SpaceX.
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