Share with friends and circles of friends with wechat scanning QR code < / P > < p > on April 25, Elon Musk released a tweet about his plan to privatize Tesla in 2018, causing a lot of trouble for himself and the company. The recent lawsuit filed by Tesla shareholders on this matter exposed a series of text messages sent by musk to Saudi Arabia public investment fund executives, close friends in Silicon Valley and investors. The content showed that musk had a verbal dispute with Saudi PIF fund executives at that time, and even said that the other party was "pushing me into the fire pit" p> < p > < / P > < p > the motion document submitted to the court late last Friday local time showed that musk had an exchange with Yasir al rumayyan, head of Saudi PIF fund, via text message, during which he was very angry at an article published by the media. The article said that the Saudi PIF fund "is said to be discussing the privatization of Tesla" p> < p > according to the 300 page lawsuit motion document, musk wrote in the text message, "this is an extremely weak statement and does not really reflect the content of our conversation on Tesla. You said you were very interested in the privatization of Tesla and have wanted to do so since 2016." Musk added, "I'm sorry we can't cooperate." p> < p > "it's ultimately up to you, Elon." Al rumayan replied p> < p > musk wrote, "you're pushing me into the fire pit." p> < p > "one slap doesn't make a sound," Al rumayan said. "We haven't received any news yet." p> < p > they are still sawing. Al rumayan told musk, "we can't approve things that don't have enough information", and said he had been waiting for more financial information. In the subsequent communication, Al lumayan asked musk to "please read this article". "I've read it," Musk said. "It's badly written. It sounds like I'm a liar. The content is vague and doesn't show the strong interest you expressed yourself." p> < p > because there was no progress in the negotiations with Saudi PIF fund, musk turned to private equity companies Silver Lake and Goldman Sachs to promote Tesla's privatization proposal. But a few weeks later, musk shelved efforts to privatize the company because many large investors would not support the plan. One late Friday night, he publicly published an article entitled "keeping public", which shocked the financial industry and ended a farce hastily p> < p > since then, Tesla has been profitable and has successively established super factories in Shanghai, Berlin and Austin. There is no doubt that Tesla has led the whole transportation industry from fuel vehicles to electric vehicles. The trillion dollar valuation has amazed Wall Street and made musk the richest man in the world p> < p > however, shareholders sued musk in the federal court, saying that the tweets and follow-up content released by musk in August 2018 were "undoubtedly wrong", which led to drastic fluctuations in Tesla's share price and cost them billions of dollars. But musk and his lawyer insisted that the tweet sent to fans was "completely true" p> < p > Musk's lawyer insisted on the original argument that the Saudi PIF fund had agreed to support Musk's idea of privatizing Tesla. Alex Spiro, Musk's chief external lawyer, disclosed the content of the corresponding SMS in the motion document submitted p> < p > the motion document also includes excerpts from Musk's testimony submitted to the securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC sued musk for fraud and finally reached a settlement agreement with musk and Tesla. According to the agreement, musk and Tesla will each pay a fine of $20 million, and musk will not serve as chairman of Tesla's board of directors for three years p> < p > during this period, musk quietly acquired more than 9% of the shares of personal social media twitter and became the largest individual shareholder of the company. Later, he refused to serve as a director of Twitter and offered to buy twitter for $43 billion this month p> < p > according to people familiar with the matter, after obtaining financing from institutions such as Morgan Stanley, musk met with Twitter executives on Sunday, indicating that on the whole, the twitter board is more open to trading than before p> < p > however, although musk said he had prepared $46.5 billion for the acquisition of twitter, the text message in 2018 reminded people that musk may also change his mind at any time. He won't forget that he was angry. (Chen Chen) < / P > < p >