You really think he spent more than a few seconds mulling over employee comics?
It seems really doubtful considering he was getting up-to-speed on a sizeable company bought almost entirely with his own money.
It seems really doubtful considering he was getting up-to-speed on a sizeable company bought almost entirely with his own money.
Trawling through the hundreds of actions of thousands of individual employees in a search for subversive contrarian views is a qualitatively different thing with respect to the notion of someone “having the time”.
Just like how we colloquially refer to mortgaged houses as being owned by the buyers and not by the bank.
This is Musk worship at another level. Active rejection of facts to make up some story about how he's some great businessman. He bought into a bad deal with no research and now he's scrambling
Banks have financed the buyout through 13 billion dollars of debt financing. There's also billions raised by others with Musk financing about 27 billion in his own cash that he raised by selling Tesla stock[0]
[0] https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/trends/story/elon-musks-...
And the article linked does not list where it got the information from, nor is it a reputable outlet for tech/finance news in the U.S., so it's questionable whether you bothered to actually read the entire article.
I've only been able to find rumours and so on for specific numbers, not anything a major outlet is willing vouch for.
If you genuinely don't understand that different sources can have different degrees of trustworthiness then it appears you need to do some self-reflection instead of accusing others of ignorance.