Inside Elon Musk's $17M Bel Air Mansion

a strong safety rating a surprise quarterly profit what's the word from mr. musk I know you're getting tired of all this good news around Tesla right well there has been some good news lately for the electric car makers but it's critics aren't silenced all that easily one issue that's still around is how consumers can get their hands on a Tesla it's a battle that pits musk against lawmakers dealerships and to make three Ford General Motors and Chrysler right now the best way to buy a Model S is at a Tesla showroom which cuts out the

middleman the franchise dealers and they're not happy about that state after state particularly in Texas they fought Tesla using laws that were written to protect the franchisees so must told me he's optimistic that consumers will outweigh the protests from the dealerships and they're lobbying money however alluring a lahar alluring a Tesla showroom IV to consumers musk says he's not ruling out working with them down the road it's not out of the question that we would sell through dealerships in the future I think we would always continue to sell cars directly but we may in addition

to that sell three dealerships not to go to much of an analogy with Apple but I mean I think there are some parallels there where when Apple didn't have it stores and it was just having to sell through Best Buy and Costco and that kind of thing the nobody understood what the advantages of buying a Mac were you know the matter it was just like this computer that seems more expensive than the other computers look ultimately he wants to sell his car so he's open to some sort of compromise all right well beside the car

I know you've got to look inside I'm not even gonna call at his house his castle is a mansion estate in Bel Air in in California yes exactly that was by the way his own Model S that we were riding in he's got a seven-bedroom ten bath mansion so to speak for about 17 million dollars he was renting this is that a mink yeah throw he has right there he was just to give you a sense of how much he he had profited from from his business you know he was renting for quite some time

and now he's actually finally body feels more secure in his financial situation because Elon with happen from I mean but other other moguls around the house la he plays video games on the weekend hangs out with his five kids and you can see there he says video games is his own movie theater regards playing here yeah I knew even asked me that you know I had being a former video gamer i ashamed to say I forgot the name of that game most children I guess gamer that he's a former video game he actually he actually

said that that helps him destress it's not it's not uncommon I've heard other people say that as well why and what you said something that really fascinates me there was a point until very recently where Elon Musk's did not feel financially secure enough to buy his own home exact that's exactly right remember a few years ago there was that divorce filing that came out in the press where he said that he was essentially broke you know he was making alimony payments cut child custody payments and also he was funding Tesla almond until all on his

own money Betty we have to go but I have to ask is your queen of the Titans even to Howard Buffett's house you've been to Elon Musk's house who do you like better I can't say I can't say who's got a better house well you know I mean you have to say he love us cuz Warren Buffett likes to keep it simple right in Omaha you know what I'll tell you what and he's convinced those days of penury Elon Musk is doing pretty well Tesla's worth what 18 billion dollars in he owns at least on

paper right almost a quarter of it he does in the paper his network shot up over five billion dollars so far this year just on Tesla stock alone Wow