LVMH Group CEO Bernard Arnault had lunch with Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the Cheval Blanc hotel in Paris on Friday, according to a source familiar with the event.
The world’s two richest men had lunch with Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, and Bernard Arnault’s two eldest sons, Antoine and Alexandre, at the LVMH-owned five-star hotel in the center of the capital. The day before on the Quotidien program, the Frenchman had described the Tesla boss as an “exceptional entrepreneur.”
$426 billion
On this occasion, Antoine Arnault, the son of the French billionaire, wanted to immortalize the moment with a photo of the two men on the hotel roof. An image that he posted as a story on his Instagram account.
A symbolic image between the two largest fortunes on the planet that between them weigh 426,000 million dollars (more than the GDP of Nigeria or Egypt), according to the estimate made by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Elon Musk has once again become the richest man in the world in recent weeks with an estimated wealth of 229,000 million dollars. Bernard Arnault is second with 192 billion dollars.
“Let’s work together!”
The lunch followed a meeting between Elon Musk and Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, as France hopes to attract Tesla investment to the country.
“Let’s work together!” (let’s work together!), wrote On twitter Emmanuel Macron in a message in English accompanied by a photo where we see the head of state shaking hands with Elon Musk.
The founder of Paypal, who heads the SpaceX aerospace group and bought the social network Twitter last year, gave a conference this Friday afternoon at the VivaTech fair.
Source: BFM TV
