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By Jef Feeley and Dana Hull

July 12, 2021 at 2:03 PM UTC

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July 13, 2021 at 12:04 PM UTC

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Elon Musk said he turned down Wall Street jobs to focus on technology.

“I was offered several high-paid jobs on Wall Street. I declined,” Tesla Inc.’s chief executive officer told his lawyer during questioning at a trial in Wilmington, Delaware, over the company’s SolarCity acquisition in 2016.