In Reply to: Musk and Tesla to part ways? Before he announced posted by HasBen on April 30, 2025 at 20:35:42
If I'm not mistaken, his personal financial value is tied very closely to Tesla. I don't know how much financial benefit he pulls from SpaceX but being the CEO of twitter and boring and all the other companies he's the CEO of (yeah, being a CEO must be a very haaaaaard job) bring that kind of income.
And once that is off of his portfolio, he may actually have to use actual money to live off of rather than the massive credit he relies on right now, which means he'd have to start paying some taxes, however miniscule.
Not to mention how much of his ego and self-mythology is tied to Tesla and especially self-driving cars.
I don't know that he would leave Tesla voluntarily. The board needs to kick him out but once they do that, they are now at MAGA crosshairs, not to mention Trump's wreath coming in on them. So I'd be surprised if they really part ways in the end.