Elon Musk: ‘mad genius’ who became world’s richest person
Elon Musk has continued to slash Twitter’s workforce, with roughly 200 of the company’s remaining 2,000 staff laid off at the weekend.Days after acquiring Twitter in October 2022, Musk sacked half of the social networking company’s staff – about 3,750 of the 7,500 employees in total.The latest sackings come amid reports that the company had deliberately made…
Elon Musk readies to unveil Tesla’s third master plan at the company’s first investor day
stocPhoto: Brandon Bell (Getty Images)Billy Crudup on creativityTesla CEO Elon Musk will address investors tomorrow (March 1) at the company’s electric vehicle gigafactory in Austin, Texas.Billed as the company’s first investors day, Musk is expected to announce new Tesla products that aim to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and lead to a “fully sustainable future”,…
Elon Musk Regains His Title as World’s Richest Person
Elon Musk has regained his place as the world’s richest man. This comes as his net worth increased to $187 billion due to the strong performance of Tesla’s share prices. Bloomberg billionaires index revealed that Tesla shares gained 5.5% to 207.63, nearly a 70% increase. The Tesla Chief lost the position to Bernard Arnault of…
Elon Musk fires Twitter’s product head Esther Crawford in latest round of job cuts
Esther Crawford, the director of product development at Twitter, who was one of few managers not fired by Elon Musk after he took over the platform, has finally been let go. Twitter logo. Image/Reuters Reuters Esther Crawford, the director of product development at Twitter, who was one of few managers not fired by Elon Musk…
Musk pledges ‘very significant’ stock awards to remaining Twitter staffers after layoffs
Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced in an internal memo on Monday that the remaining Twitter employees will receive “very significant” performance-based stock awards, just days after the company announced another round of layoffs. In a memo obtained by The Verge on Monday, Musk promised his remaining employees that they will receive the stock awards on…
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SpaceX set to launch next International Space Station crew for NASA
[1/6] A Falcon 9 rocket is readied before launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission, which will take four crew members to the International Space Station, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 26, 2023. REUTERS/Joe SkipperCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb 26 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX was set to launch early…
Elon Musk’s Twitter lays off yet even more workers
Yet another bad day for Twitter. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images Despite already making several rounds of extreme cuts, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has laid off even more employees this weekend. Tech website The Information first reported(Opens in a new tab) the company had laid off at least 50 people Saturday. The…
Tesla Master Plan Part 3 and Investor Day Expectations
Limiting Factory Youtuber, Jordan Giesige, analyzes key factors for Tesla Master Plan Part 3 and Investor day. Elon Musk and Tesla have previously described getting to 20 Terawatt hours per year and a total of 300 Terawatt hours of batteries to transition energy and transportation to electricity. This means 14 million tons of lithium carbonate…
China Launching 12992 Satellites to Suppress SpaceX Starlink Will Backfire
Researchers say China plans to build a huge satellite network in near-Earth orbit to provide internet services to users around the world – and to stifle Elon Musk’s Starlink. The project has the code name “GW”, according to a team led by associate professor Xu Can with the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Space Engineering University…