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His solution: Combine them ina roughly $2.1 billion tie-upto establish a single clean-energy business. Plaintiffs, which include pension funds that owned Tesla stock, have characterized the deal as a scheme to benefit himself and bail out a home-solar company on the verge of insolvency.</p>\n<p>Mr. Musk, the opening and only witness in the first day in a nonjury trial in the Delaware Chancery Court, is scheduled to return to the stand Tuesday. He defended his actions in roughly five hours of testimony, saying the SolarCity purchase was crucial tothe sustainable-energy strategyhe had envisioned for Tesla for a decade.</p>\n<p>“I don’t think SolarCity was financially troubled,” Mr. Musk said. “In order to have a compelling product, you really needed to have a tightly integrated solar and battery solution. And we could not create a well integrated product if SolarCity was a separate company.”</p>\n<p>A primary question in the case is whether Mr. Musk, who owned roughly 22% of Tesla at the time, controlled the transaction. Proving the claim is a challenge because Mr. Musk was a minority shareholder of Tesla and the company’s shareholders approved the acquisition. Lawyers for Mr. Musk have said that SolarCity was worth more than Tesla paid for it and the electric-vehicle maker’s board members, who included Mr. Musk’s brother, Kimbal Musk, acted independently.</p>\n<p>The billionaire CEO, who has a record of sometimes blunt and surprising statements, said Monday that he didn’t enjoy being the boss of Tesla. “I rather hate it and I would much prefer to spend my time on design and engineering, which is what intrinsically I like doing,” he said.</p>\n<p>Mr. Musk made the comment after opposing counsel tried to show how his “force of will” and faith in his view of Tesla’s future illustrated his ability to control the SolarCity transaction.</p>\n<p>Other issues before the judge include whether Tesla board members, some of whom also were SolarCity shareholders personally or through investment funds they managed, were conflicted and whether vital information about the deal was withheld from shareholders. Mr. Musk testified that an independent director handled the negotiation and that Tesla’s directors even overruled his proposal that Tesla provide temporary financing to SolarCity before the deal went through.</p>\n<p>Mr. Musk spoke in a calm and sometimes quiet tone as he answered his lawyer’s questions. He became more energetic when he fielded questions from Randall Baron, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. Mr. Baron pressed Mr. Musk on whether he dominated Tesla, handpicked its board members and made decisions without directors’ involvement.</p>\n<p>Mr. Musk has already displayed flashes of hissometimes combative naturein the case, making for a confrontational witness in a 2019 deposition, calling Mr. Baron “reprehensible” for “attacking sustainable energy.”</p>\n<p>To explain the behavior, Mr. Musk told the court he didn’t respect Mr. Baron because the lawyer had once worked at a law firm whose partners becameengulfed in an ethics scandaland went to prison over their misdeeds. “I think you are a bad human being,” Mr. Musk said to Mr. Baron.</p>\n<p>Mr. Baron asked Mr. Musk why SolarCity’s performance varied significantly from the projections that Tesla gave to shareholders in 2016. Mr. Musk blamed the decline in solar-panel installation and market share to Tesla’s pressing need to focus on developing its Model 3 car in 2017 and 2018. Tesla at the time wasstruggling to bring the car to market.</p>\n<p>“Those were the three hardest years of my entire career,” he said, later calling the period excruciating. “The company was in dire straits. Many of the times I thought we were out of the woods, we were not.”</p>\n<p>More recently, Mr. Musk said, the coronavirus pandemic hurt Tesla’s ability to get permits for residential solar installations.</p>\n<p>If Mr. Musk loses, he could be asked to make Tesla whole. That payment could equal the value of the SolarCity transaction if the presiding judge finds that the solar firm wasn’t worth anything when Tesla agreed to buy it.</p>\n<p>The trial has been delayed for more than a year because of the pandemic and is expected to last two weeks.</p>\n<p>Other Tesla board members at the time of the tie-up agreed to settle last year for a combined $60 million, paid by insurance. The board members, some of whom had interests in both Tesla and SolarCity, denied wrongdoing.</p>\n<p>Mr. Musk brought the proposed deal to Tesla’s board in early 2016, court records show. The plaintiffs describe SolarCity as having been in severe financial distress leading up to the deal, at risk of tripping a debt covenant and without other fundraising options. Shareholders weren’t fully informed of the company’s condition, they say.</p>\n<p>Mr. Baron pressed that point Monday, asking Mr. Musk about internal emails and meetings that discussed efforts to save money by delaying payments to vendors and other moves. The attorney also asked whether he was aware thatLazardLtd.bankers had tried to raise money for SolarCity in 2016 and found most of the private investors they surveyed to be unreceptive.</p>\n<p>Mr. Musk said Tesla also occasionally took such steps to conserve cash. He said SolarCity could have raised money from private investors if it had more time to do so, and ultimately could have sold stock to public investors.</p>\n<p>If chancery court Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights III, the presiding judge, finds Mr. Musk didn’t control the deal, the case is likely over for the plaintiffs, said Lawrence Hamermesh, executive director of the Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.</p>\n<p>Case law in Delaware generally defers to the business judgment of independent and properly motivated directors. On the other hand, if the evidence points to control, the court would assess whether the deal process and price were fair and, if not, whether Mr. Musk should be ordered to pay money back to Tesla, Mr. Hamermesh said.</p>\n<p>For Mr. Musk, who now ranks among the world’s wealthiest people, the optics of a loss likely would be more meaningful than any court-ordered financial judgment, said Seth Goldstein, an analyst for Morningstar Research Services LLC.</p>\n<p>“You could see the board become extra diligent with regard to acquisitions that aren’t in Tesla’s current, existing industries,” Mr. Goldstein said.</p>\n<p>Tesla investors also have enjoyed a change in fortunes since the takeover first surfaced. The vehicle makerposted its first full-year of profit in 2020. The stock, which traded at around $44when Tesla proposed buying SolarCity, closed Monday at around $686, up 4.38% on the day.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Elon Musk Defends SolarCity Deal, Says of Being Tesla Boss: ‘I Rather Hate It’</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nElon Musk Defends SolarCity Deal, Says of Being Tesla Boss: ‘I Rather Hate It’\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-13 07:44 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-takes-stand-in-court-to-defend-purchase-of-solarcity-11626098958?mod=hp_lead_pos3><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Plaintiffs allege billionaire entrepreneur led Tesla to overpay for the home-solar company in 2016.\n\nWILMINGTON, Del.—TeslaInc.TSLA4.38%Chief ExecutiveElon Muskwas in court Monday to defend the ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-takes-stand-in-court-to-defend-purchase-of-solarcity-11626098958?mod=hp_lead_pos3\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉"},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-takes-stand-in-court-to-defend-purchase-of-solarcity-11626098958?mod=hp_lead_pos3","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1175242446","content_text":"Plaintiffs allege billionaire entrepreneur led Tesla to overpay for the home-solar company in 2016.\n\nWILMINGTON, Del.—TeslaInc.TSLA4.38%Chief ExecutiveElon Muskwas in court Monday to defend the company’s purchase of SolarCity Corp., telling a judge that he didn’t act improperly during the negotiating process and doesn’t even enjoy running the electric-vehicle maker.\nThe case dates to 2016, when Mr. Musk was chairman of both companies, both of them unprofitable at the time. His solution: Combine them ina roughly $2.1 billion tie-upto establish a single clean-energy business. Plaintiffs, which include pension funds that owned Tesla stock, have characterized the deal as a scheme to benefit himself and bail out a home-solar company on the verge of insolvency.\nMr. Musk, the opening and only witness in the first day in a nonjury trial in the Delaware Chancery Court, is scheduled to return to the stand Tuesday. He defended his actions in roughly five hours of testimony, saying the SolarCity purchase was crucial tothe sustainable-energy strategyhe had envisioned for Tesla for a decade.\n“I don’t think SolarCity was financially troubled,” Mr. Musk said. “In order to have a compelling product, you really needed to have a tightly integrated solar and battery solution. And we could not create a well integrated product if SolarCity was a separate company.”\nA primary question in the case is whether Mr. Musk, who owned roughly 22% of Tesla at the time, controlled the transaction. Proving the claim is a challenge because Mr. Musk was a minority shareholder of Tesla and the company’s shareholders approved the acquisition. Lawyers for Mr. Musk have said that SolarCity was worth more than Tesla paid for it and the electric-vehicle maker’s board members, who included Mr. Musk’s brother, Kimbal Musk, acted independently.\nThe billionaire CEO, who has a record of sometimes blunt and surprising statements, said Monday that he didn’t enjoy being the boss of Tesla. “I rather hate it and I would much prefer to spend my time on design and engineering, which is what intrinsically I like doing,” he said.\nMr. Musk made the comment after opposing counsel tried to show how his “force of will” and faith in his view of Tesla’s future illustrated his ability to control the SolarCity transaction.\nOther issues before the judge include whether Tesla board members, some of whom also were SolarCity shareholders personally or through investment funds they managed, were conflicted and whether vital information about the deal was withheld from shareholders. Mr. Musk testified that an independent director handled the negotiation and that Tesla’s directors even overruled his proposal that Tesla provide temporary financing to SolarCity before the deal went through.\nMr. Musk spoke in a calm and sometimes quiet tone as he answered his lawyer’s questions. He became more energetic when he fielded questions from Randall Baron, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. Mr. Baron pressed Mr. Musk on whether he dominated Tesla, handpicked its board members and made decisions without directors’ involvement.\nMr. Musk has already displayed flashes of hissometimes combative naturein the case, making for a confrontational witness in a 2019 deposition, calling Mr. Baron “reprehensible” for “attacking sustainable energy.”\nTo explain the behavior, Mr. Musk told the court he didn’t respect Mr. Baron because the lawyer had once worked at a law firm whose partners becameengulfed in an ethics scandaland went to prison over their misdeeds. “I think you are a bad human being,” Mr. Musk said to Mr. Baron.\nMr. Baron asked Mr. Musk why SolarCity’s performance varied significantly from the projections that Tesla gave to shareholders in 2016. Mr. Musk blamed the decline in solar-panel installation and market share to Tesla’s pressing need to focus on developing its Model 3 car in 2017 and 2018. Tesla at the time wasstruggling to bring the car to market.\n“Those were the three hardest years of my entire career,” he said, later calling the period excruciating. “The company was in dire straits. Many of the times I thought we were out of the woods, we were not.”\nMore recently, Mr. Musk said, the coronavirus pandemic hurt Tesla’s ability to get permits for residential solar installations.\nIf Mr. Musk loses, he could be asked to make Tesla whole. That payment could equal the value of the SolarCity transaction if the presiding judge finds that the solar firm wasn’t worth anything when Tesla agreed to buy it.\nThe trial has been delayed for more than a year because of the pandemic and is expected to last two weeks.\nOther Tesla board members at the time of the tie-up agreed to settle last year for a combined $60 million, paid by insurance. The board members, some of whom had interests in both Tesla and SolarCity, denied wrongdoing.\nMr. Musk brought the proposed deal to Tesla’s board in early 2016, court records show. The plaintiffs describe SolarCity as having been in severe financial distress leading up to the deal, at risk of tripping a debt covenant and without other fundraising options. Shareholders weren’t fully informed of the company’s condition, they say.\nMr. Baron pressed that point Monday, asking Mr. Musk about internal emails and meetings that discussed efforts to save money by delaying payments to vendors and other moves. The attorney also asked whether he was aware thatLazardLtd.bankers had tried to raise money for SolarCity in 2016 and found most of the private investors they surveyed to be unreceptive.\nMr. Musk said Tesla also occasionally took such steps to conserve cash. He said SolarCity could have raised money from private investors if it had more time to do so, and ultimately could have sold stock to public investors.\nIf chancery court Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights III, the presiding judge, finds Mr. Musk didn’t control the deal, the case is likely over for the plaintiffs, said Lawrence Hamermesh, executive director of the Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.\nCase law in Delaware generally defers to the business judgment of independent and properly motivated directors. On the other hand, if the evidence points to control, the court would assess whether the deal process and price were fair and, if not, whether Mr. Musk should be ordered to pay money back to Tesla, Mr. Hamermesh said.\nFor Mr. Musk, who now ranks among the world’s wealthiest people, the optics of a loss likely would be more meaningful than any court-ordered financial judgment, said Seth Goldstein, an analyst for Morningstar Research Services LLC.\n“You could see the board become extra diligent with regard to acquisitions that aren’t in Tesla’s current, existing industries,” Mr. Goldstein said.\nTesla investors also have enjoyed a change in fortunes since the takeover first surfaced. The vehicle makerposted its first full-year of profit in 2020. The stock, which traded at around $44when Tesla proposed buying SolarCity, closed Monday at around $686, up 4.38% on the day.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":309,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"EN","currentLanguage":"EN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":9,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ORIG"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"isTiger":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"url":"/m/post/142111183"}
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