Elon Musk may have once considered taking over as CEO of Apple, America’s most valuable company, as if he didn’t already run enough businesses.
Musk is alleged to have had a phone chat with Tim Cook five years ago, in the midst of manufacturing delays and other challenges hampering Tesla’s planned Model 3 launch, during which the Apple (AAPL) CEO proposed buying Tesla.
According to a Los Angeles Times review of Wall Street Journal reporter Tim Higgins’ upcoming book “Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century,” Higgins covers Apple (AAPL), Tesla (TSLA), and other tech businesses.
Replying to a report about Apple’s plans to release a battery-powered, mass-market automobile, Musk said he reached out to Cook during the “darkest days of the Model 3 program” about acquiring Tesla “for 1/10 of our current value. “
“Cook & I have never spoken or written to each other ever,” Musk said, adding that he had once requested a meeting with Cook to discuss Apple buying Tesla, but that it didn’t happen and “there were no conditions of acquisition proposed whatsoever. “
