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SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk at an event in Berlin on December 1, 2020. Photo / Getty
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk at an event in Berlin on December 1, 2020. Photo / Getty
Financial Times
By: Robin Wigglesworth and Eva Szalay
Elon Musk is not like most multibillionaires. The first oblique hint that Tesla's eccentric chief executive was contemplating another audacious, market-shaking move came via a risqué, Yuletide social media message.
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On December 20, Musk tweeted
a cartoon image depicting himself as a devout monk trying to live a "normal productive life", gazing at a woman in a provocative pose with "bitcoin" plastered over her posterior.