Many consider Elon Musk and his ideas to be brilliant. Others see him and his actions as a kind of risky unknown. Nobody knows what to do next. And so his just revealed episode fits right into that picture. As he now explained, Musk almost sold Tesla - now the world's most valuable car maker - to Apple a few years ago. If his boss, Tim Cook, had been ready for it. "Behind the scenes, Elon is humble," Will Marshall tells WELT. Musk is more pleasant in personal conversation, says Marshall, than he looks outwardly. Marshall is a space entrepreneur himself and meets Musk regularly. But there is also the other side of Elon Musk. The dark. For example, it was seen in spring.