“I even refused to meet Tim Cook.” Musk tried to sell Tesla to Apple, but was rejected.

Musk “I tried to sell Tesla to Apple, but Tim Cook refused”
It is not known when it was attempted to sell, but it is expected that it suffered a financial crisis in 2017

[갓잇코리아 / 송성호 기자] In the news of the launch of the Apple Car in 2024, American electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk (hereinafter referred to as Musk) tried to sell Tesla to Apple, but Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he had refused.

Musk wrote this article in response to a tweet from investment research firm Arc Invest’s Brett Winton about Apple’s entry into electric cars, questioning “It’s weird if it’s true.”

Musk said on Twitter that day, “I contacted Tim Cook during a period of extreme difficulty in the development of the Model 3 and explored the possibility of acquiring Tesla (at the level of tenths of the current market cap).” did.

I didn’t say exactly when the Tesla acquisition proposal was made, but it is estimated to be between mid 2017 and mid last year. Musk’s CEO tweeted earlier last month that the company had been driven to bankruptcy in the past.

Tesla’s market capitalization in 2017 was $60 billion (66.4 trillion won). Musk seems to have tried to sell Tesla to Apple at this price. Currently, Tesla’s market capitalization is 600 billion dollars (663 trillion won). Tesla surpassed this crisis well and then succeeded in turning into a surplus, raising the stock price.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s tweet is interpreted to be uncomfortable when Tesla’s share price fell 6.5% on the news of Apple’s electric car on the first day of incorporation into the S&P500 index.