The billionaire will be regretting this.
I’m not going to name names on this one but, let’s face it, somewhere along the way April Fools’ Day stopped being about mucking about – putting a layer of clingfilm over your mate’s toilet bowl, or w/e – and instead turned into a shitshow of terrible #CorporateBanter.
It’s fair to say this was optimised by Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, yesterday when he took to Twitter to say that his car company had gone bust.
Tesla Goes Bankrupt
Palo Alto, California, April 1, 2018 — Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last-ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are sad to report that Tesla has gone completely and totally bankrupt. So bankrupt, you can't believe it.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 1, 2018
Musk wrote that the company was ‘so bankrupt, you can’t believe it’. Adding: “There are many chapters of bankruptcy and, as critics so rightly pointed out, Tesla has them *all*, including Chapter 14 and a half (the worst one).”
The big reveal that it was just banter was a photo of himself, where he explained it was all a ruse – good one, got us there Elon!
Elon was found passed out against a Tesla Model 3, surrounded by "Teslaquilla" bottles, the tracks of dried tears still visible on his cheeks.
This is not a forward-looking statement, because, obviously, what's the point?
Happy New Month! pic.twitter.com/YcouvFz6Y1
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 1, 2018
As well as not being funny, the entire stunt also ended up costing him a fortune because – shock horror – when you’re a billionaire and you tweet that your company has gone bust, a few people are going to believe it.
According to the Metro, following the post pre-trading shares dropped by 2.5 percent following the posts. Gutted.
