Businessman Roman Abramovich
The billionaire Roman Abramovich called Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, the economic forum which will be held in St. Petersburg in June 2016. Has Musk proposal is still unknown
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has invited the founder and director of the company Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016 (SPIEF 2016). This RBC said a source in one of the venture capital funds and has confirmed a spokesman for Abramovich’s Millhouse, John Mann. Why Abramovich has decided to extend an invitation on its behalf, Mann said, noting only that the businessman “loves Tesla machine and Millhouse few years to invest in alternative energy».
Mann did not say whether Abramovich received response from the mask. Several RBC queries sent to Tesla and SpaceX, remained unanswered.
The representative of “Roskongressa” (organizer SPIEF) told RBC that the organizing committee has officially invited Elon Musk forum. “At the same time, we welcome the activity of private Russian companies and representatives of businesses that contribute to the development of international investment activity of Russia”, – she said. A source in the RBC “Roskongresse” reported that Elon Musk and invited officially and unofficially “through the channels of business».
A source in one of the investment funds in conversation with Abramovich RBC said, the mask and the Russian businessman “familiar.” He noted that Abramovich has invested in projects Mask.
Earlier RBC source in the organizing committee of the SPIEF said that forum organizers invited by searching for “star” of the business. “There is a task to invite the world-famous evangelist businessman”, – he said. A source in the Kremlin said that this role would be very approached Musk, but it is unlikely he would agree to come to Russia.
According to two sources from the organizing committee of the forum, to be the “star” also considered the founder of Alibaba Jack Ma (was the headliner at last year’s St. Petersburg forum) and the creator of Uber Travis Kalanick. has not officially confirmed the arrival of only Ma: on May 17, said Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko at a briefing dedicated to the organization of the forum. Uber representatives did not comment on the information about the invitation and the possible arrival Kalanika in Russia.
The American billionaire Elon Musk took 94 th place in the list of the richest people in the world, according to to the American Forbes, with a fortune of $ 12.4 billion. Its main investment-linked with the alternative power industry and the development of commercial space programs. The most famous project – a company Tesla Motors, founded in 2003, which produces electric vehicles. The company is traded on the stock exchange, as of 17:55 MSK May 19 its capitalization on the NASDAQ stock exchange was estimated at $ 28 billion Another famous project Mask -. Company SpaceX, which is developing its own launch vehicles to send commercial goods into the space. At the end of April SpaceX also announced that no later than 2018 plans to send an unmanned Dragon spacecraft to Mars.
St Petersburg Economic Forum will be held from 16 to 18 June. According Roskongressa, their participation in the forum confirmed about 3,500 people (as of April 28), about 50% of the participants – the foreigners. SPIEF main agenda this year will be “directed outward”, previously wrote RBC. As explained by a senior federal official, President Vladimir Putin wanted to “send foreign participants signal” that Russia had seriously as a result of action of external forces, and the situation on the financial markets, but managed to survive, and sooner or later begin to rise, and foreign business, which is now coming back, get more dividends, making it earlier than others.
with a probability of project
May 19 the newspaper “Vedomosti” reported on the establishment of a group to discuss the prospects of cooperation between the “Russian Railways” (RZD) and the American company Hyperloop One, which develops high-speed trains on the idea of the billionaire Elon Musk (formally it does not own the company). So far only discussed the concept of probability and amount of future funding information is not available. The site Hyperloop One appeared position description, which implies that the company is looking for a Director of Business Development in the Moscow office – for the development of projects in Russia
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