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Apparently, Elon Musk doesn’t want to be CEO of any company.
Or so he claimed in testimony at a trial Wednesday challenging his giant compensation package at Tesla. Musk, who is the CEO of multiple companies, including most recently, Twitter, was answering questions from lawyers representing Tesla when he made the offhand comment.
“I frankly don’t want to be the CEO of any company,” he said.
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“I frankly don’t want to be the CEO of any company”
The trial, which kicked off Monday, is focused on whether Tesla’s board acted appropriately when it approved a pay package for Musk that is now worth about $52 billion at recent share prices and whether Musk had any undue influence over that decision.
But Musk’s testimony also stretched into…
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