Who is Haraldur Thorleifsson? Elon Musk apologizes for mocking former Twitter employee

August 2024 · 3 minute read

Haraldur Thorleifsson is an imaginative fashioner
He has 2 youngsters
Haraldur was born with dysferlinopathy

Elon Musk apoligized to previous Twitter representative Haraldur Thorleifsson for deriding his disablility. The miniature contributing to a blog site’s President and Thorleifsson, who goes by ‘Halli’, first communicated by means of tweets before the previous chose to video call him.

Halli originally posted his complaint on Twitter, saying he lost his work PC access nine days earlier and couldn’t say whether he was as yet utilized.

“Anyway your head of HR can’t affirm on the off chance that I am a representative or not. You’ve not addressed my messages. Perhaps if enough individuals retweet you’ll respond to me here?” he composed.

“What work have you been doing?” Musk answered his tweet.

“Assuming you have your legal counselors share recorded as a hard copy that I can do that then I’d be glad to examine that straightforwardly!” Halli then, at that point, said.

“It’s supported, you go for it” tweeted.

Halli then, at that point, talked about his obligations, adding that he recruited creators, assisted the organization with engaging more youthful clients, and drove undertakings to “step up plan across the organization.”

As the two talked by means of tweets, Musk took a correspond at Halli’s inability.

“Actually this person (who is freely well off) accomplished no genuine work, guaranteed as his reason that he had an incapacity that kept him from composing, at this point was at the same time tweeting up a tempest.” Musk composed. “Can’t say I have a ton of regard for that.”

When Haraldur Thorleifsson, the former Twitter employee who Elon Musk publicly mocked, sold his company to Twitter in 2021, he negotiated for the majority of the sale to be paid in wages in order to be taxed at Iceland’s higher rate of 46% instead of the 22% capital gains rate. pic.twitter.com/S708NRUTtT

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They then, at that point, had a video call and Musk apologized.

Who is Haraldur Thorleifsson?

Haraldur Ingi Orleifsson, an Icelandic financial backer, giver, imaginative originator and business visionary, was born in 1997. The 2019 Icelandic Finance manager of the Year, he established the firm Ueno and offered it to Twitter in 2021. He then, at that point, kept on working for Twitter until 2023.

Thorleifsson is a dad two.

Haraldur was born with dysferlinopathy, a hereditary solid dystrophy illness that constrained him to utilize a wheelchair by the age of 25. Orleifur Gunnlaugsson and Anna Jónsdóttir were his folks. In an auto collision brought about by a savored driver 1988, his mom was killed and his stepfather, entertainer Jóhann Sigurarson, was truly harmed.

Haraldur laid out Ueno, a supplier of imaginative innovation administrations, in 2014. The Icelandic Relationship of Business and Financial experts named him Iceland’s money manager of the year in 2019.

According to his LinkedIn profile, he filled in as a chief at Twitter situated in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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