Musk: ‘Making a way more inexpensive automobile would make a number of sense’

NUSA DUA, Indonesia — It’s not simple being Elon Musk. 

That was the message the brand new Twitter proprietor and billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX had for youthful individuals who may search to emulate his entrepreneurial success.

“Watch out what you want for,” Musk advised a enterprise discussion board in Bali on Monday when requested what an up-and-coming “Elon Musk of the East” ought to concentrate on. 

“I’m undecided how many individuals would truly prefer to be me. They wish to be what they think about being me, which isn’t the identical,” he continued. “I imply, the quantity that I torture myself, is the subsequent stage, frankly.”

Musk was talking on the B-20 enterprise discussion board forward of a summit of the Group of 20 main economies happening on the Indonesian resort island. He joined the convention by video hyperlink weeks after finishing his closely scrutinized takeover of Twitter. 

He had been anticipated to attend the occasion in particular person, however Indonesian authorities minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, who’s accountable for coordinating preparations for the summit, stated Musk couldn’t attend as a result of he is getting ready for a court docket case later within the week. 

He is received a lot else to maintain himself busy. 

“My workload has lately elevated quite a bit,” he stated with a chuckle in an obvious reference to the Twitter deal. “I imply, oh, man. I’ve an excessive amount of work on my plate, that’s for positive.”

The businessman appeared in a darkened room, saying there had been an influence lower simply earlier than he linked. 

His face, projected on a big display over the summit corridor, appeared to glow purple because it was mirrored in what he stated was candlelight – a visage he famous was “so weird.”

Whereas Musk was among the many most anticipated audio system on the enterprise discussion board, his remarks broke little new floor. Solely the moderator was in a position to ask questions. 

The Tesla chief govt stated the electrical carmaker would take into account making a less expensive mannequin when requested about lower-cost choices for creating nations like India and G-20 host Indonesia. 

“We do suppose that making a way more inexpensive automobile would make a number of sense and we should always do one thing,” he stated.

Musk additionally reiterated a want to considerably enhance the quantity and size of Twitter’s video choices, and share income with individuals producing the content material, although he didn’t present specifics.

He purchased Twitter for $44 billion final month and rapidly dismissed the corporate’s board of administrators and high executives. 

He laid off a lot of the remainder of the corporate’s full-time workforce by e-mail on Nov. 4 and is now eliminating the roles of outsourced contractors who’re tasked with combating misinformation and different dangerous content material. 

Musk has vowed to ease restrictions on what customers can say on the platform.

He is reaped a heap of complaints — a lot on Twitter itself — and has tried to reassure corporations that publicize on the platform and others that it will not injury their manufacturers by associating them with dangerous content material. 

In his look Monday, Musk acknowledged the criticism.

“There’s no option to make everybody completely happy, that’s for positive,” he stated. 

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