Tesla chief executive Officer Elon Musk is "thinking of" leaving his jobs and becoming an influencer, the world's richest man has tweeted.
"Thinking of quitting my jobs & becoming an influencer full-time wdyt," Musk said in the tweet, without elaborating.
It was not immediately clear if Musk, a prolific user of the social media platform, was being serious about quitting his roles.
Musk, who is also the founder and CEO of rocket company SpaceX, and leads brain-chip startup Neuralink and infrastructure firm The Boring Company, said during a conference call in January that he expects to be the CEO of Tesla for "several years".
"It would be nice to have a bit more free time on my hands as opposed to just working day and night, from when I wake up to when I go to sleep 7 days a week. Pretty intense," he had said.
Elon Musk has sold nearly $12 billion worth of shares over the past month since he polled Twitter users about offloading 10% of his stake in the electric-car maker.
thinking of quitting my jobs & becoming an influencer full-time wdyt
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2021
The billionaire yesterday sold another 934,091 shares for $963m to pay for taxes on the exercise of stock options to buy 2.17 million shares in Tesla, according to US securities filings.
He has sold a combined 11.03 million shares and has acquired 12.87 million shares by exercising options since November 8.
Musk said on November 6 he would sell 10% of his stake if Twitter users agreed.
He owned a combination of about 244 million shares through his trust and stock options, bringing his stake in Tesla to about 23% as of June 30. It included 170 million shares held by his trust.
The tweet was vague. Musk did not outline if he was intending to offload 10% of his shares he indirectly owned through the trust or if his stock options were also part of the deal.
Following the latest transactions yesterday, Musk still has an option to buy about 10 million more shares at $6.24 each, which expires in August next year.
