Elon Musk clashes with Norway wealth fund CEO; ‘friends are as friends do’

https://www.reuters.com/business/elon-musk-clashes-with-norway-wealth-fund-ceo-friends-are-friends-do-2025-01-28/

42 comments

  1. I used to admire Musk a lot for his innovation and vision, but this kind of petty behavior is really disappointing. Holding a grudge against a major investor like Norway’s wealth fund because they didn’t approve your $56 billion payday? Come on. Tangen handled it with class, but Musk needs to realize that accountability and criticism are part of the game especially when you’re a public figure pushing for ‘free speech.’

  3. Whaaa whaaa I wont come to your dinner meeting unless you vote yes for my severance package.

  4. There is no way that you could be more of an out of touch globalist elite then by bitching about Norwegian sovereign wealth funds because you don’t like the manner in which they invested millions into your megacorporation. How does Musk still have any fans? Dude is a serial bridge arsonist.

  5. In the Norwegian news:

    * [Elon Musk to Nicolai Tangen: «Did you send my text messages to the press?»](https://e24.no/boers-og-finans/i/jQM4bL/elon-musk-to-nicolai-tangen-did-you-send-my-text-messages-to-the-press)

    >Musk reacted to the Norwegian media coverage of his text messages to Tangen:

    >«Did you send my text messages to the press?» Musk asked Tangen.

    >Musk attached a screenshot of messages he had received from other people, who wrote that Tangen had given his «text messages to the press» and claimed that Tangen «has political ambitions» and is using «the oil fund to promote himself.»

    >Tangen explained to Musk that Norway has legislation similar to the American Freedom of Information Act.

    >For months, E24 has requested access to the text messages between Elon Musk and Nicolai Tangen under the Norwegian Freedom of Information Act (Offentlighetsloven). The Ministry of Finance previously informed E24 that the text messages contained «opinions that, in isolation, appear to be solely of a private nature.»

  6. Good on Norway wealth fund for objecting to his payday. I wait for the day when the board throws him out of Tesla.

  7. The reply should have been “friends dont always agree on everything”

  8. *do me a favour and vote yes so I can hollow out your investment and walk away 50 billion richer in personal wealth*

  10. Would Norway support banning Twitter as a tool of propaganda?

  12. I’m so tired of seeing stuff about Musk everywhere, everyday, no matter where I look. It’s so draining. I don’t even care what this person does or does not, whether he lives or dies, buys or sells, insults or hails…

    I wish the iPhone had a feature to block anything with certain keywords from anywhere.

  15. Who knew we would find someone who could out cringe Trump on the Internet?

    Should have known what we were in for when he wheeled out the Cybertruck and didn’t say ‘yea just kidding.’

  17. I thought Musk was meant to be heading up the so-called Department of Government Efficiency?

    Why isn’t he doing his job? Ironic, isn’t it?

  19. That is some seriously unprofessional shit.

    Friends? 56 billion dollar favors? Is Elon Musk 12y.o. or just insane?

  20. Where can I find me some of them $56 billion favors?

  21. Yo… aliens. Beam your boy back up already… we get it… ha ha.

    He is like… A global Rasmus paludan

  22. Finally somebody that can buy and sell him instead of the other way around

  24. That idiot needs to learn that other countries aren’t as corrupt as the US.

  26. We are supposed to have our fiber optics installed by the end of February. Can not wait to cancel and trash Starlink.

  27. The only people not clashing with the Elon clown are afd nazis from Germany and naga nazis from America

  29. People like Musk or Trump don’t have actual friends- just employees, subordinates, coattail riders, bootlicks, and toadies

  30. Elon is tanking the reputation of Tesla and its stock.

  31. Dump it. Dump it all now. Don’t be left holding nazi stock.

  32. Norway wealth fund is worth 50% more than all of Tesla. Or 7 times more than Elons share of Tesla. So Elon is the little guy here.

  33. Can someone eli5 the hard on that they both have for Scandinavia right now? 

  35. He wants a massive payday when he reduces the wages of his employees. To paraphrase is defense of that decision, the share holders should be happy to cut his pay as it will increase the stock price and every employee owns stock, most of all Elon.

  36. Elon can go choke on barbed wire as far as Europe cares

  37. Elon should really know that the proper quote is “Stupid is as stupid does”.

    As he has personally demonstrated this applicability of this quote many many times over.

  38. Everything Muskrat does shows zero trust in his own company. He probably knows other manufacturers build better electric cars by now. 

  40. “When I ask you a favor”, that is, approving these 56 billion for me, of which some billions will come from the public Norwegian money you are handling. A favor guys. Just that. Can anyone here make me a favor?

  41. Saved you a click:

    After Nicolai Tangen, the CEO of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, voted against Elon Musk’s massive $56 billion pay package, he later extended an invitation to Musk for a one-day conference in Norway, followed by a private one-on-one dinner. Musk declined the invitation, responding in an iMessage to Tangen on October 14:

    “When I ask you for a favor, which I very rarely do, and you decline, then you should not ask me for one until you’ve done something above nothing to make amends.

    Friends are as friends do.”

    Tangen replied the following day: “Noted and fully understand. As a large shareholder, we cheer for you. Good luck with everything. Best, Nicolai.”

  42. Musk has no true friends. He only cares about himself. 

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