Head Tesla Ilon Mask had a 20 billion dollars. It was for so much a state of the entrepreneur after he took part in the television show Saturday Night Live on the NBC TV channel. It is reported by Forbes.
The program was released on May 9, during the show Mask admitted that he had Asperger’s syndrome, called the cryptocurrency dogecoin fraud. And also laughed at its business plans.
A few days later, Mask stated that Tesla suspends the sale of electric vehicles for bitcoins due to the non-environmentally friendly method of obtaining this cryptocurrency. Before the appearance on the air, the state of the businessman was estimated at 166 billion dollars.
After the statements of the mask, the price of the most expensive cryptocurrency fell 17 percent at once, and later dropped to 47 thousand dollars. TESLA shares collapsed and shares: this week they fell 15 percent. As a result, the state of the entrepreneur who owns a 21 percent share in the company has decreased by $ 20.5 billion – to 145.5 billion.
Wall Street analysts warned that the last steps of the mask are confused by cryptoinistants and cause additional volatility of Tesla shares. Securities are now and so under pressure due to news from China – the key market for manufacturers of electric vehicles. Earlier in May it became known that Tesla is still in no hurry to expand production at the plant in Shanghai and did not buy the land there.