News JVTech “He’s a dirty c**”: Elon Musk is violently tackled by Xavier Niel, great French CEO and billionaire
Published on 08/10/2024 at 22:30
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Adored by some, hated by others, billionaire Elon Musk leaves no one indifferent… not even those who belong to a category close to his own. Xavier Niel, the boss of Free, has a particularly strong opinion on the owner of Tesla.
Elon Musk is an eccentric billionaire if ever there was one. He owns key Silicon Valley companies like Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter) and also seeks to revolutionize medicine with Neuralink and dig tunnels with The Boring Company. Result, Elon Musk is everywhere, all the time. And we can add to this the fact that as a supporter of Donald Trump, he also invites himself to his meetings.
The South African billionaire has his followers, but he also has his detractors. The big question ultimately is whether we can appreciate his initiatives in the field of technology, while not appreciating the man behind it.
“By saying stupid things, the moment comes when you pay for it”
Xavier Niel, the boss of Free who also has fun on X very often, doesn’t hold his tongue in his pocket. And the least we can say is that he owns his words! In his work A real desire to make a mess: Interviews with Jean-Louis Missika, Xavier Niel gives his opinion on Elon Musk : “He’s endearing sometimes, he’s a great entrepreneur, he’s created incredible companies and has dazzling intuitions. But personally, he’s far from great.”he explains.
For Xavier Niel, Elon Musk “has locked himself into a transgressive extremist persona and I don’t know how he’s going to get out of it. Because by saying stupid things, the moment comes when you pay for it. The moral is that you can be both a brilliant entrepreneur and a jerk. »
“There are several Musks”
Separating the human from the visionary, a necessary action when it comes to Elon Musk? Xavier Niel thinks so: “We must clearly distinguish between his entrepreneurial intelligence, which is incredible, and his geostrategic intelligence, which is not at the same level. As I told you, there are several Musks. You have to watch what he does and stop listening to what he says. The Musk who tweets is less interesting than the Musk who acts. »
Perhaps the problem is that for many people, “Tweeting Musk” is omnipresent. X’s algorithms also frequently seem to push messages from his boss, who says everything and its opposite.
The other Musk who is talking about him at the moment is clearly the one who supports Donald Trump in the American presidential electionsand who does it a lot on As for whether Xavier Niel’s opinion matters to Elon Musk, we’ll let you make your own deductions on the subject.
