Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been criticized by investor Bicycle Berry as news broke that he is expecting nine children.
On the 7th (local time), Bloomberg News reported that Musk tweeted, “We are doing our best to overcome the crisis of population shortage. The collapse of the fertility rate is the greatest danger facing civilization.”
Musk posted the tweet after a report by Business Insider, a business media outlet, that he had twins after a secret affair with Seabon Gillies, an executive at Neuralink, a neuroscience startup he founded.
Musk has been married and divorced three times, and now has nine children, including twins.
He added, “I hope you all have a large family. Congratulations to those who have already formed a large family.”
When the news broke, Barry, who had often been at odds with Musk, tweeted: “A child born in the United States is like the 1950s, but that doesn’t mean that bosses have to sleep with their subordinates to solve this problem.” said.
“Having more children in broken families is not a solution,” he added.
Berry, who is known as the real protagonist of the movie ‘The Big Short’, announced in May of last year that he had a put option to bet on Tesla’s further decline, fueling the weakness of Tesla’s stock at the time.
In the same year, when Musk posted a picture of a Shiba inu on Twitter, as the price of the virtual currency Shibainu skyrocketed, he said, “This price increase is meaningless.”
Reporter Lee Bo-bae, Hankyung.com [email protected]