Elon Musk flew to Europe last week, where he first met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani. However, he did not stay long on the Apennine Peninsula, because on Friday he flew straight to Paris, where he met with the French president.
Elon Musk spoke to Macron and had lunch with Arnault
Musk spoke to Macron on investments in batteries (the French territory of New Caledonia is a tycoon in the extraction of nickel and cobalt needed in electronics), artificial intelligence and Tesla led by Musk. It is no secret that Elon Musk is looking for a place to set up a second (the first is located near Berlin) electric car factory on the Old Continent, and Emmanuel Macron does not hide that in his opinion France is the perfect place for Musk. As the president revealed to journalists that he met with the billionaire “not with hope, but with a plan” to convince him to his idea. However, no declarations have been made so far.
Apparently, Musk had too little time for them, because soon after he went to lunch with Bernard Arnault, the owner of the French concern LVMH and the second richest man on Earth (the first is Musk himself). The gentlemen met in a restaurant on the roof of the luxurious Cheval Blanc hotel in the company of Arnault’s two sons (Antoine and Alexandre) and Musk’s mother – Maye Musk, who two days earlier appeared at a fashion show in Milan (she is a model). The subject of the conversation between Elon Musk and Bernard Arnault has not been disclosed, but the very meeting of the two richest people in the world, whose combined assets amount to nearly half a trillion dollars ($236.9 and 231.6 billion respectively – according to ) is extraordinary.
Musk translates from Twitter. “Since I’m so smart…”
In Paris, Elon Musk also took part in the Viva Technology conference devoted to innovations and startups, where, besides Emmanuel Macron and Bernard Arnault, he was a speaker. Musk spoke a bit about himself, his businesses, and the goals of those companies. He said Tesla’s mission “has made a lot of progress” and SpaceX aims to “make life multi-planet.” The most interesting, however, was a fragment of his speech about Twitter, which he bought last fall for a trifle of $ 44 billion. to the often repeated information that he simply overpaid for the platform. “If I’m so smart, why did I pay so much for Twitter?” he asked, immediately answering that as an active user of this social network, he was extremely concerned about its state and the fact that it was heading in the wrong direction, having a negative impact on society. On other occasions, Musk has repeatedly said that he decided to buy Twitter mainly to introduce “free speech” there.
Source: Gazeta
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