(REUTERS): Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is “thinking of” quitting his jobs and becoming a full-time influencer, the world’s richest man tweeted on Thursday.
“Thinking of quitting my jobs & becoming an influencer full-time wdyt,” Musk said in the tweet. However, it was not immediately clear if Musk, a prolific user of the social media platform, was being serious about quitting his roles.
thinking of quitting my jobs & becoming an influencer full-time wdyt
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2021
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 added.
Musk was last in the news for selling 934,091 Tesla shares worth $963.2 million. He also exercised stock options to buy 2.17 million shares of Tesla, according to the company’s SEC filings as of December 9.
Musk had last posted about job openings for AI engineers at Tesla. “As always, Tesla is looking for hardcore AI engineers who care about solving problems that directly affect people’s lives in a major way,” he tweeted. “A background in “AI” is not needed, just exceptional skill in software or computer design,” Musk replied to his own tweet a day later.
A background in “AI” is not needed, just exceptional skill in software or computer design
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 6, 2021
