Elon Musk has a history of making projections that don’t end up coming to pass. Some of them are silly: Shortly after acquiring Twitter, he said he expected it to surpass a billion monthly users by mid-2024 (estimates for that year put the number around a third that many). Others are more consequential, like when he insisted in March 2020 that COVID cases in the U.S. would be “close to zero” in about six weeks (he was off by 103 million). Recently, a comment he made in a wide-ranging video interview with Bloomberg published on Tuesday caught our attention: Asked if he had any doubt that he would be the CEO of Tesla in five years’ time, he responded, “Well, no, I might die.” Of course,…
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