Elon Musk – the richest particular person on the planet – says he would not personal his personal home proper now. The Tesla and SpaceX mogul has up to now mentioned he doesn't personal the mega mansion you'd count on, and in an interview with TED's Chris Anderson. As a substitute, he mentioned, he sofa surfs.
"I do not even personal a spot proper now, I am actually staying at associates' locations," Musk mentioned in the course of the interview, shared on TED's YouTube on Sunday. "If I journey to the Bay Space, which is the place most of Tesla's engineering is, I mainly rotate by means of associates' spare bedrooms."
Musk, a father of seven, has an estimated web value of $270.1 billion, based on Forbes. Nonetheless, Grimes – the mom of two of his youngsters – admitted throughout a latest Vainness Honest interview they lived in a "very insecure $40,000 home." The singer dug additional into Musk's cash issues, saying at one level he had a mattress with a gap in it and did not wish to purchase a brand new one.
She mentioned their home had "no safety" and that she ate "peanut butter for eight days in a row." Throughout this interview, Grimes revealed she and Musk welcomed their second child – secretly – and that though it was reported they'd damaged up, that wasn't totally true. They're "fluid" and dwell in separate homes, she mentioned.
It's unclear the place Grimes lives now, however throughout his TED interview, Musk mentioned the place he lives is usually at different folks's homes. Musk dropped this element when answering a query in regards to the wealth disparity within the U.S. between common People and billionaires like himself.
"For certain, it will be very problematic if I used to be spending billions of dollars a yr in private consumption, however that isn't the case," he mentioned.
"It isn't as if my private consumption is excessive," he continued, admitting there's one exception: his non-public aircraft. "But when I do not use the aircraft then I've much less hours to work," he mentioned.
Whereas Musk claims his abode is nothing greater than a pal's spare bed room, there are experiences that he does dwell in a luxurious mansion – typically.
Final yr, Musk tweeted that his main residence is a rental from SpaceX, value $50,000 and conveniently close to the house exploration firm's Texas location. Within the June 2021 tweet, additionally admitted to proudly owning an "occasions home" within the Bay Space.
However in December 2021, it was reported Musk was really residing in an Austin mansion owned by Ken Howery, based on the Wall Road Journal. Howery, who co-founded PayPal together with Musk and others, purchased the 8,000-square-foot residence in 2018 for $12 million – when it was the most costly property in Austin, based on Forbes.
Musk's claims of a minimalistic life-style go even additional again. In Could 2020 he tweeted: "I'm promoting virtually all bodily possessions. Will personal no home."