Cassie Douglas
We can smell a hot cup of tea brewing from a mile away, and today’s cup is HOT. It was recently reported that JPMorgan Chase is suing Elon Musk’s multi-billion dollar company Tesla for a whopping $162.2 million, supposedly for breaching stock contracts. While losing that kind of money is enough to make any of us sick, Musk doesn’t seem even the slightest bit bothered–at least it looks that way from his social media.
Instead of responding to the lawsuit or press queries regarding the matter, he has been posting unrelated content as recently as today on his Twitter, mainly about SpaceX.
12 million pounds of thrust at liftoff pic.twitter.com/4ArkgU4Vff
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2021
With a net worth of over $250 billion, now surpassing Jeff Bezo’s by over $50 billion, we kind of understand Musk’s nonchalant response, that said, it could be that he’s perhaps decided not to post company details so publicly. It’s his past Twitter tweets that have provoked the lawsuit to begin with.
According to news sources, his notorious 2018 tweet about potentially taking Tesla private is the main offender in question.
Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 7, 2018
Since the time of the tweet, Tesla’s stocks–and the shares of which JPMorgan claims to have–have risen substantially. JPMorgan is alleging that Tesla still owes it 228,775 shares, which amounts to what’s named in the lawsuit–$162.2 million.
While we’re waiting for the fine details to unfold, if there’s something we can take away from this in the meantime it’s to keep a closer eye on Musk’s social media, you never know when he’s going to set the example of what not to say when you’re a big business owner–or rather, how not to be too bothered by such things.