According to the surging news, on the morning of April 28, Beijing time, Musk released a tweet saying that he already has a new goal, and the next step will be to acquire Coca-Cola and re-add cocaine.
I have to say that having money is really willful. As the world's richest man, Musk has begun to attack several industry giants during this time.
He has always had an opinion on Twitter's editing function, and he is not satisfied with just being an "internet celebrity", and on April 25, Musk simply pulled out of his pocket and bought the social networking site at a price of $54.2 per share. Hundreds of millions of Twitter users have also transferred to Musk's umbrella.
Now it's Coca-Cola's turn again, you know, this brand was founded in May 1886, it is now 136 years old, and the market is all over the world. In the field of beverage soft drinks, Coca-Cola is at the forefront, and its influence is not to mention.
Cocaine, which has been used as anesthetic, is highly toxic and is one of the world's leading drugs, with users becoming emotional and even attacking people. As soon as Coca-Cola appeared, cocaine was added to it. It wasn't until 43 years later, in 1929, that people realized the dangers of cocaine and removed it from the recipe.
In the face of this beverage industry giant, Musk moved his finger to tweet, announced that he wanted to buy, and even shouted to rejoin kakoine. This news quickly attracted heated discussion among netizens, but the opposition may not be able to stop the expansion trend of "Musk Empire".
If you count the cards in his hand, there are a lot of them. In 2002, he founded the American Space Exploration Technology Corporation and proposed the Starlink Project, which is expected to launch 42,000 satellites by 2024, with a "giant net" of components, surrounding the entire earth. Tesla, an American electric vehicle and energy company, is also Musk's, occupying a large market share and good development prospects;
If that's not enough, Musk is gradually promoting the civilianization of manned spaceflight, and wants to make space travel a big business, with a fare of about 350 million yuan per person.
Now that Twitter, a well-known social media platform in the United States, has been included in his hands, Coca-Cola has become Musk's next target. Some netizens said that his influence is getting bigger and bigger, and he may have to run for the president of the United States in the future! After all, the previous Trump was also a businessman, and Musk was richer and more powerful in comparison.
During the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, he also announced in a high-profile manner on Twitter that he would go head-to-head with Putin and represent the United States in the war.
Let's not talk about whether Musk will run for president or not, whether he can become president, objectively speaking, he already has an "empire". There was a previous claim that Facebook founder Zuckerberg is the "king" of 2 billion people, that Musk holds so many cards, the "subjects" under him are estimated to be countless.
In this way, he may become the most powerful person in the United States. However, when an entrepreneur becomes more and more influential in society and has a certain right to speak, it is likely to become a thorn in the eyes of politicians.
Facebook has fought lawsuits with Australia and India before, and Musk is also very dangerous. No, he just bought Twitter and announced that it would protect free speech, and the European Union issued a warning: "If you relax the censorship of this social software, you will suffer a huge fine, and if it is serious, your platform will have to stop operating!"