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☆ Miki Agrawal has moved on from Thinx. She hopes you have, too.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Claire Landsbaum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

Agrawal, a 45-year-old serial entrepreneur who founded the period-underwear company Thinx and the bidet startup Tushy, has always poured herself into her businesses. That July, Agrawal gave birth to her son, Hiro Happy Horn Agrawal. AdvertisementAfter leaving Thinx, Agrawal, pictured here in her Texas home, poured her energy into her bidet startup Tushy. Before Thinx, before Tushy, Agrawal was an analyst at Deutsche Bank, working in an office near the World Trade Center. In 2011, she cofounded period-underwear company Thinx with her twin sister, Radha, and a friend, Antonia Saint Dunbar.

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☆ Elon Musk was nowhere to be seen at Starship's first successful launch to orbit
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Ellyn Lapointe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk finally achieved Starship's first successful flight to orbit early Thursday morning. Musk was seen in the launch control room at both previous launches, making his latest absence unusual. AdvertisementElon Musk was nowhere to be seen as SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket finally flew into orbit, cruised above Earth, and plummeted back through the atmosphere on Thursday. Elon Musk sat in the control room watching the first orbital launch of Starship, which exploded about four minutes after liftoff. Starship will make life multiplanetary pic.twitter.com/Ul7ksiAHBZ — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 14, 2024By all accounts, this successful launch was a dream come true for Musk.

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☆ Check out the hilariously low-effort website for the Musk Foundation, where billions of Elon Musk's philanthropy money goes
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's charity platform, the Musk Foundation, has come under some scrutiny from The New York Times. Set up in 2002, the foundation's website has a very plain looking design that is devoid of graphics. In 2002, the billionaire started his charity platform, the Musk Foundation, with his brother, Kimbal. But its website appears to be fairly sparse for an organization endowed with billions of dollars from Musk's fortune. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Elon Musk is lashing out at MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex, for donating billions to charities for women and minorities
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"'Super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse' should be listed among 'Reasons that Western Civilization died,'" Musk wrote in an X post referencing Jeff Bezos' ex-wife. Shame on anyone who uses it," Musk wrote on X in January. Unfortunately, a lot of others are getting caught in the crossfire," Musk wrote in an X post at the time. "The hard part is figuring out how to do it in a levered way," Bezos told CNN. In 2021, Musk donated $5.7 billion in Tesla shares to the Musk Foundation, a charity he started with his brother, Kimbal, in 2002.

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☆ Elon Musk might not get to keep his $55 billion Tesla package. But overall, CEOs shouldn't panic about their paydays.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A judge recently voided Elon Musk's $55 billion compensation package at Tesla. AdvertisementA Delaware judge recently ruled that Elon Musk should not get a $55 billion compensation package for his work at Tesla despite his contributions to the company. So now that Musk's compensation has to be renegotiated, will other executives kiss their massive bonuses, stock options, and paychecks, goodbye? The more Tesla was worth, the higher Musk's compensation would get. "I don't know whether individual CEOs are panicking or taking Elon Musk as a role model, thinking, 'Well, if he doesn't like Delaware, then I have to move out of Delaware,'" Lipton said.

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☆ Tesla board silent as investors await next steps after Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package revoked
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Antonio Masiello | Getty ImagesTwo weeks after a Delaware court ruled that Tesla must rescind Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package, the company's board remains mum on what the decision means for shareholders or what's next for the mercurial CEO. CNBC sent requests for additional information to Tesla investor relations, Musk and some board members. "Given the high stakes involved, it is likely that Tesla will appeal the decision," Kastiel said in an email. In the absence of a successful appeal, "any new compensation arrangement with him will have to be assessed" in light of McCormick's decision, Kastiel said. Kastiel also said that the decision likely makes Musk and Tesla more vulnerable to other types of lawsuits.

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☆ Tesla stock drops as investors scrutinize board’s close personal ties to Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Ehrenpreis is also a close friend to Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother, who is also a Tesla board member. In another instance, the judge emphasized the role of Tesla’s general counsel Todd Maron — who was previously Musk’s divorce lawyer — in advising Tesla’s board and compensation committee. Maron was “totally beholden to Musk,” McCormick wrote in her ruling last week, adding that Maron’s admiration for Musk “moved him to tears” during both his deposition and in trial testimony. Maron’s team prepared “an aggressive timeline for approving a compensation plan,” McCormick wrote in her more than 200-page ruling. The break-neck speed of the process “reflected a reckless approach to a fiduciary process.”Robyn Denholm, the Tesla board chair, doesn’t appear to have had any personal relationship with Musk outside of her service on the board, McCormick wrote.

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☆ The Tesla shareholder who denied Musk his $55 billion payday is a former heavy metal drummer
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Richard Tornetta sued Tesla in 2018 over Elon Musk's $55 billion compensation plan. The Tesla shareholder is a former heavy metal drummer for the thrash-metal band Dawn of Correction. A Judge sided with Tornetta and struck down the pay package, calling it unfair to shareholders. AdvertisementThe Tesla shareholder who won a dramatic legal victory that denied Elon Musk his $55 billion compensation package used to be a heavy metal drummer. The EV maker will need to develop a new compensation plan for Musk, although it can appeal.

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☆ Kimbal Musk 'felt the voice of God' twice in his life: during a near-death experience and when taking ayahuasca
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kimbal Musk takes a slightly different stance on God than his older brother. While Elon Musk has said he's "not religious" and has said he's questioned whether life is a simulation and "may have no meaning," Kimbal Musk said he believes in the "soul and spirit." "I had two different lives," Kimbal Musk said. Kimbal Musk is also the cofounder of two other food-related companies, a nonprofit called Big Green, and the urban-farming startup Square Roots. Musk said he had a similar spiritual experience later on in his life when he tried ayahuasca, a plant-based psychedelic known for its hallucinogenic properties.

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☆ Tesla shareholder calls on board to suspend Elon Musk for agreeing with antisemitic post
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Tesla’s board of directors should suspend Elon Musk for endorsing antisemitic views on social media, according to one investor in the electric vehicle company. Discovery and other major brands to halted advertising on X, which is owned by Musk. Tesla’s board should put Musk on leave for 30 to 60 days and require him to attend empathy training and/or therapy, Braakman argued. Not only is Musk viewed as the single most important person at Tesla, but he sits on the board of directors and is the largest individual shareholder. Tesla board is led by Denholm and includes James Murdoch, venture capitalist Ira Ehrenpreis, Musk’s younger brother Kimbal and Musk himself.

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☆ It looks like Elon Musk had son X Æ A-12 in the Starship launch control room amid custody dispute with Grimes
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AdvertisementElon Musk wasn't the only celebrity in the control room at SpaceX's Starship flight on Saturday. A screengrab from SpaceX's livestream on X shows Starship lifting off for its second attempt at space. The kid sure looks a lot like Elon Musk's 3-year-old son, X Æ A-12. Kimbal Musk picks up a child as Elon Musk talks with people on SpaceX's livestream of the Starship launch on X. SpaceXX Æ A-12 is one of three children Elon Musk has with Grimes, whose legal name is Claire Boucher. Elon Musk with 3-year-old son X at Tesla plant Gigafactory Texas in Austin, Texas.

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☆ Elon Musk's dad said he turned down a free Tesla from his son
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Errol Musk, Elon Musk's dad, said he turned down his son's offer to send a Tesla to South Africa. In January 2022, Errol Musk turned down his son's offer to gift him a Tesla and ship it to his home in South Africa, he told Insider. South Africa charges a 25% tariff on automotive imports. While Tesla has begun selling its EVs in Europe and China, the vehicles are not for sale in South Africa. "You go to Austin and every time you turn around you're at a Tesla charging station."

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☆ We asked Elon Musk's dad what he thought about the new book out on his son. He had a lot to say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Errol Musk told Insider he isn't happy with what he's heard about the new biography on his son. AdvertisementAdvertisementErrol Musk isn't happy with Walter Isaacson's recent biography about his son, Elon Musk. Isaacson's biography on Elon Musk is filled with accounts of incidents where the Tesla CEO and other family members claim Errol Musk bullied and demeaned Elon. In the book, Isaacson wrote that Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk have cut off communication with their father — an assertion Errol Musk denies. Isaacson, Elon Musk, and Kimbal Musk did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication.

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☆ Elon Musk worried his father was 'uncomfortably attentive' to his stepdaughter when she was 15, biographer says. His father later had 2 kids with her.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Grace Kay | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elon Musk worried about the attention Errol Musk was giving his stepdaughter when she was 15, according to a new book. Errol Musk told Insider the claims were "balderdash" and said he was equally attentive to his kids. Over a decade later, Errol Musk fathered two children with the same stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout. Elon Musk invited his father to live near himIsaacson wrote in the biography that Elon Musk convinced his father to move with his then-wife and stepchildren from South Africa to Los Angeles in 2002. AdvertisementAdvertisement"I tried threats, rewards, and arguments to change my father for the better," Elon Musk told Isaacson in the book.

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☆ 8 major takeaways from the explosive new book about Elon Musk that lifts the lid on the world's richest person
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Grace Dean | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Gianliuigi Guercia/Getty ImagesOne character who appears frequently throughout the book is Elon Musk's father, Errol Musk. "It turned out to be a really bad idea," Elon Musk told Isaacson. "It was mental torture," Elon Musk told Isaacson. But the years that he spent with his father have somewhat shaped Elon Musk's personality, according to the book. Ex-wife Talulah Riley also told Isaacson that Errol Musk's treatment of his son "had a profound effect on how he operates."

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☆ Elon Musk learned social cues from reading books because he had no friends as a child
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk was bad at understanding social cues as a child because he had no friends in school. As a result, he picked up social cues from reading books, according to his new biography. As a teenager, Elon Musk followed his sister around to clubs and parties so he didn't have to be lonely. Maye Musk told Isaacson that Elon Musk "became so lonely and sad," when he started going to school. Musk walked "behind her and her friends," Isaacson wrote, "carrying a book to read whenever they went into a club or party."

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☆ Elon Musk and his siblings hated one of their mom's boyfriends so much that they put tiny firecrackers in his cigarettes that exploded, book says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Musk siblings hated a man Maye Musk was dating so much they put firecrackers in his cigarettes. Maye Musk dated the man after she divorced Errol Musk, Walter Isaacson wrote. Isaacson's book, "Elon Musk," details the billionaire's childhood and the strained relationship between his parents. AdvertisementAdvertisementMaye Musk and Errol Musk were married for nine years and are also parents to Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk. AdvertisementAdvertisementMaye Musk and Errol Musk didn't immediately reply to a request for comment for this story, which was made outside of normal working hours.

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☆ Errol Musk denies berating his son after an attack at school put Elon Musk in hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

His father, Errol Musk, disputed this account in a statement to Insider. The story was recounted in Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk, who's now the world's richest person . The Musk brothers said Errol Musk lashed out at his son. "No, I did not berate Elon," Errol Musk told Insider in an email. AdvertisementAdvertisementIsaacson wrote that Errol Musk moved Elon Musk from a public school to a private academy, Pretoria Boys High School, after the attack.

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☆ Elon Musk's 'enraging qualities' are key to his success, says biographer
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Some of CEO and entrepreneur Elon Musk's most polarizing attributes may have also enabled his success so far, says biographer Walter Isaacson. That reckless streak can't be separated out from Musk's track record of innovation at companies like Tesla and SpaceX, Isaacson told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Tuesday. "I didn't believe in vacations. I didn't believe in weekends. I didn't believe the people I worked with should either," Gates said, adding that he didn't realize he needed to change until he became a dad.

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☆ An enduring food favorite of Elon Musk across 3 decades is Jack in the Box's teriyaki bowl
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Musk's favorite dish there was the teriyaki bowl, which he ordered again when he revisited the chain along with Walter Isaacson. AdvertisementAdvertisement"I can still tell you every single menu item," Kimbal told Isaacson, "It's just seared into my brain." Musk told Isaacson, "I'm supposed to be fasting now, but I just have to get something here." Jack in the Box is a fast food chain founded in 1951. Musk isn't alone in loving fast food staples — Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are also self-declared fans of Coca-Cola.

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☆ Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Paul Glader | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —“You’ll never be successful,” Errol Musk in 1989 told his 17-year-old son Elon, who was then preparing to fly from South Africa to Canada to find relatives and a college education. That’s one of the scenes Walter Isaacson paints in his 670-page biography of Elon Musk, who is now the richest person who ever lived. In a 2022 email sent to Elon Musk on Father’s Day, Errol Musk said he was freezing and lacking electricity, asking his son for money. Isaacson’s book revealed Musk had a third child (Techno Mechanicus) with the musician Grimes in 2022, and Musk confirmed the revelation Sunday. “Stop falling for weird s—.”Are robocars, an AI company and a robot called Optimus on tap?

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☆ Elon Musk whispered to his first wife, Justine, that he was 'the alpha in this relationship' during their first dance
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

During Elon Musk's first dance with Justine Musk, he told her he was the "alpha" in the relationship. Justine Musk was his first wife and the mother of five of Elon Musk's surviving children. "I am the alpha in this relationship," Elon Musk whispered to author Justine Musk, his first wife, as they danced following their ceremony on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, Walter Isaacson wrote in "Elon Musk," his new biography of the tech mogul. Elon Musk met Justine Musk when he was a sophomore and she a freshman at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. AdvertisementAdvertisementShe told Isaacson that Elon Musk told her to dye her hair blonder and that she felt like she was being turned into a "trophy wife."

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☆ Elon Musk has been a sleep-deprived, workaholic since starting his first business. Those habits set the stage for a bitter RTO battle among CEOs.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk has been a workaholic since at least 1995. Musk's obsession with work has set a precedent for CEOs who are aggressively enforcing RTO policies. AdvertisementAdvertisementJim Ambras, an early employee at Zip2, recalled that Elon Musk had no pillow or sleeping bag. This kind of approach to work has stayed with Elon Musk throughout his career. AdvertisementAdvertisementMany of Elon Musk's and other CEOs' employees excel in their roles but have little interest in pursuing a workaholic, "hardcore" lifestyle.

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☆ 8 CEO lessons Elon Musk tried to teach his bother Kimbal, based on a mobile game Musk was obsessed with
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Here are the eight CEO lessons that Elon handed down to his brother through the game, per Isaacson's conversations with Elon, Kimbal, Grimes, and Zilis. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion," Elon told Isaacson. If we let a few of them slide, we will never get to Mars," Elon told Isaacson. Elon told Isaacson, "I had to take Polytopia off my phone because it was taking up too many brain cycles. Elon Musk and Kimbal Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ When working together at Zip2, Elon Musk had to go to the ER for stitches and a tetanus shot after his brother, Kimbal, once tore off a hunk of flesh from his hand
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Kimbal Musk bit Elon Musk and "tore off a hunk of flesh" off his hand during a fight in the 1990s. Elon Musk had to go to the emergency room for stitches and a tetanus jab. Kimbal Musk bit his brother because he thought Elon Musk was about to punch him in the face, the book said. "When we had intense stress, we just didn't notice anyone else," Kimbal Musk told Isaacson. Kimbal Musk, just over a year younger than Elon Musk, also moved in with Errol around four years later.

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