Elon Musk asked Tim Cook for Apple to buy Tesla, Cook refused to meet

Elon Musk requested to meet with Tim Cook about Apple buying Tesla, Cook refused the meet -- Tesla was worth 6% of today's value.

@anthony256

Published Aug 1, 2021 10:20 PM CDT
Updated Aug 31, 2021 6:34 AM CDT

49 seconds read time

Can you imagine if Apple had acquired Tesla last year? It could've happened, as Elon Musk requested a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook about the company buying Tesla. Cook refused the meeting, and that was that.

We're hearing about this again because of a new book by Wall Street Journal reporter Tim Higgins, called Power Play. Elon tweeted out a few days ago to clarify what happened, where he first off called Higgins' new book "both false *and* boring".

Musk continued, adding: "Cook & I have never spoken or written to each other ever. There was a point where I requested to meet with Cook to talk about Apple buying Tesla. There were no conditions of acquisition proposed whatsoever. He refused to meet. Tesla was worth about 6% of today's value".

Back in December 2020, Musk talked about reaching out to Cook about Apple acquiring Tesla, which 1/10 of their value at the time... Musk noted that he "refused to take the meeting". As Robert @Scobleizer Scoble noted at the time, that decision "could cost Apple a trillion dollars in next 15 years".

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Anthony Garreffa

Anthony joined the TweakTown team in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of graphics cards. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering and has recently taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.