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A brand new e book about Tesla is already inflicting drama

July 30, 2021

Ah, who does not love some drama between two wealthy grownup males.

On Friday, the Los Angeles Occasions revealed a evaluate of Wall Avenue Journal reporter Tim Higgins’ new e book about Tesla, Energy Play. The evaluate stresses that the e book is about “the various workers not named Elon Musk who made important contributions to no matter success the carmaker enjoys immediately,” with Musk serving “not as essential character however dramatic foil to these doing their finest below chaotic, dysfunctional situations,” Spicy!

However, after all, the a part of the e book the evaluate discusses that’s making probably the most waves is instantly about Musk.

Particularly, the evaluate recounts an anecdote within the e book about an alleged name between Musk and Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner. In line with the e book, the 2 CEOs spoke about Apple probably buying Tesla when the electrical automaker was having monetary issues in 2016. Musk was into the concept, below the situation that he grow to be the CEO. Not “keep” the CEO of Tesla — however grow to be the CEO of Apple.

What was Prepare dinner’s response to Musk’s proposition that he take over Prepare dinner’s job? To say “Fuck you,” and hold up the telephone, in accordance with the evaluate’s account of the e book.

Clearly that is hilarious and a phenomenal trade to ponder. However each events are denying that this occurred.

Which, in flip, is resulting in typical Elon Musk Twitter drama.

Reporter Mark Gurman initially revealed a narrative in Bloomberg in 2020 about how Tesla and Musk did broach a possible acquisition of Tesla by Apple in 2016. In line with Musk and the report, Apple would not take the assembly.

Gurman factors out that Prepare dinner instructed Kara Swisher an identical model of occasions to Musk’s, however a much less acrimonious one. Within the interview transcript, Prepare dinner says he has “by no means really spoken to” Musk, after which goes on to go with him. Which is principally the CEO model of “I do not know her.”

Prepare dinner’s assertion that they’ve by no means spoken is a bit arduous to imagine, contemplating that the 2 CEOs sat one seat aside on the notorious tech CEO summit held in 2017 by Trump. However a beneficiant studying of the assertion is that “by no means spoken” refers to a significant dialog about Tesla vis-à-vis an Apple acquisition. Hrmm.

Additionally, Prepare dinner has not really weighed in himself, and Apple didn’t return Mashable’s request for remark earlier than the time of this text’s publication.

Musk, nevertheless, could not let the state of affairs naturally diffuse with out having the final phrase.

Musk takes Gurman’s Twitter thread as a possibility to bash the e book as “false *and* boring” and speak up Tesla’s progress.

Additionally, only a few moments later he goes on to criticize Apple for…its App Retailer charges?!

As Fortnite maker Epic Video games and anti-trust investigators have argued, Musk’s received some extent. However with respect to the Tesla/Apple dramz, hey, left subject, good to be in you!

The LA Occasions evaluate doesn’t give particulars concerning the supply of the anecdote. Musk did reportedly refuse to take part within the e book. Per the LA Occasions: “In an writer’s observe on the finish, Higgins writes that Musk ‘was given quite a few alternatives to touch upon the tales, details, and characterizations offered in these pages. With out pointing to any particular inaccuracies, he supplied merely this: ‘Most, however not all, of what you learn on this e book is nonsense.””

So we have the e book giving one model of occasions, Prepare dinner giving his non-version, and Musk’s Twitter account, all of a dialog that will or might not have occurred. And now, there is a new canon of Twitter drama about all of it. And scene.