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Even Elon Musk Thinks About Quitting His Job

CEO has offloaded about $11.8 billion of stock over five weeks
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By Cecile Vannucci and Craig Trudell

December 10, 2021 at 2:12 AM UTC

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December 10, 2021 at 2:51 PM UTC

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Elon Musk paired another disclosure that he’s disposed more Tesla Inc. stock with a joke tweet about quitting his jobs.

Tesla’s chief executive officer offloaded another $963 million worth of shares to pay taxes on the exercise of an additional 2.2 million options, according to regulatory filings dated Thursday. He’s now disposed of about $11.8 billion worth of stock over five weeks.