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☆ A Tesla worker who was laid off a month after he joined says he can't pay his rent
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewAn employee who'd been working at Tesla for about a month learned he'd been laid off on Monday, local news station KVUE reported. This includes quietly removing inventory discounts for its EVs in the US, as Tesla investor Sawyer Merritt noted on X.AdvertisementMusk responded, "We are simplifying and streamlining the whole Tesla sales and delivery system. Musk announced his latest moonshot on X earlier this month and said Tesla would launch a self-driving taxi called "Robotaxi," which it would reveal on August 8. Tesla didn't immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment made outside of normal working hours.

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☆ A Tesla worker who was hired and then laid off a month later says he can't pay his rent
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla laid off more than 10% of its workforce, a memo sent by CEO Elon Musk showed. One worker who lost his job a month after joining Tesla told KVUE he couldn't pay his rent. AdvertisementAn employee who'd been working at Tesla for about a month learned he'd been laid off on Monday, local news station KVUE reported. This includes quietly removing inventory discounts for its EVs in the US, as Tesla investor Sawyer Merritt noted on X.AdvertisementMusk responded, "We are simplifying and streamlining the whole Tesla sales and delivery system. Musk announced his latest moonshot on X earlier this month and said Tesla would launch a self-driving taxi called "Robotaxi," which it would reveal on August 8.

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☆ EVs struggling in cold happening under 'rare circumstances': Tesla investor Sawyer Merritt
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailEVs struggling in cold happening under 'rare circumstances': Tesla investor Sawyer MerrittHosted by Brian Sullivan, “Last Call” is a fast-paced, entertaining business show that explores the intersection of money, culture and policy. Tune in Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. ET on CNBC.

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☆ Charlie Munger once said he and Warren Buffett weren't interested in emulating Elon Musk: 'We don't want that much failure'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Charlie Munger once said that Elon Musk "likes taking on the impossible job and doing it." But the late Munger said he and Warren Buffett didn't want to emulate Musk's lifestyle. Munger, Warren Buffett's longtime business partner, died at 99 on Tuesday. We have a wholly different way of going about life," Munger said. "Appreciate the kind words from Warren and Charlie," Musk wrote in response to a video of Buffet's and Munger's comments back in May.

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☆ Musk Calls McDonald's Promo Involving Cybertruck-Inspired Spoons 'Fake News'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk called a Tesla McDonald's promotion "fake news." Musk replied to a post about Cybertruck-inspired spoons, saying, "Fake news afaik." An X user later pointed out the information came from Tesla's verified Weibo page. This led Merritt to point out the information came from Tesla's verified Weibo page. On an earnings call in April, Musk said he hoped to hand over the first customer trucks by late September.

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☆ Tesla gave the Model 3 a makeover and cut the price of Full Self-Driving by $3,000
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla gave its Model 3 a major makeover – the first in six years. But the company cut the price of its Full Self-Driving feature in the US by $3,000. AdvertisementAdvertisementTesla has released a sleeker version of its Model 3 sedan in the first major revamp of one of its cars. It's the first time Tesla has updated a model for the Chinese market ahead of the US, Reuters reported. In the US, the price of the Full Self-Driving system was reduced by $3,000 to $12,000 hours after Tesla unveiled the updated Model 3.

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☆ Elon Musk says its X logo design, which was submitted by a fan, will be refined after some users mocked it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter to X, but not everyone's pleased about it. The billionaire ditched the bird logo design and replaced it with a large art-deco style "X." The billionaire announced on Saturday he was ditching Twitter's bird logo and replacing it with a large "X." "I will start bawling If that logo turns emo and has an X on It," one user said, who shared a photo of Twitter's bird logo. Musk has previously spoken about his vision for X to be an all-encompassing "everything app" similar to the popular Chinese app WeChat.

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☆ Elon Musk wants you to call a tweet an 'x' as Twitter rebrands
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Twitter has started its rebrand to the "X" app that owner Elon Musk has long talked about building. Twitter's iconic blue bird logo is out as it rebrands to the "X" app, and it turns out "tweets" are out too. Twitter owner Elon Musk said posts on the platform should take on a new name — "x's" — consistent with the transition to "X." "x's," Musk replied. Twitter ushered in its new image pretty quietly, projecting the new X logo onto its San Francisco headquarters in the middle of the night.

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☆ Elon Musk says he's ditching a 'silly' Twitter policy that stopped an account dedicated to a beagle from being monetized
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk vowed to scrap a Twitter policy that barred an account dedicated to a dog from going pro. The change comes just days after Twitter introduced a new program to share revenue with users. Musk tweeted "consider this silly policy deleted as of now," Deadline first reported. Elon Musk says he will delete a Twitter policy preventing accounts featuring "animals or fictional characters" from being turned professional and monetized. The account tweeted, "Bag status: canceled" after noting it was unable to monetize its tweets.

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"Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else," Musk wrote in response to a tweet. Musk took over Twitter in October of last year in a deal valued at around $44 billion, including about $13 billion in debt. He also claimed at that time that the company was "roughly breakeven," and expected to become cash flow positive within the next quarter. A number of widely followed accounts on Twitter posted that they were dismayed they did not qualify to earn income from the program yet. It's not clear how much Twitter paid creators in total in this first round of payments.

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☆ Andrew Tate, Ashley St. Clair, and Billy Markus are among the Twitter personalities who say they're getting thousands of dollars under the site's new ad-revenue program
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In some cases, Twitter has told them to expect tens of thousands of dollars. Billy Markus, the creator of Dogecoin who has 2.1 million followers, tweeted on Thursday that he was getting $37,050. Several accounts connected to Musk were told they'd also be getting payments. Sawyer Merritt, a Tesla investor who posts regular commentary about Musk's businesses, tweeted that Twitter would pay him $6,465. "It makes a lot of cents to create here!," Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted on Thursday after the program was announced.

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