Elon Musk claims to have offered greater than 20,000 bottles of his ‘Burnt Hair’ fragrance, elevating greater than $2 million for his tunnel-digging startup.
The tech billionaire described it as “the finest fragrance on Earth”, with the corporate itemizing it as “the essence of repugnant desire” and smelling “just like leaning over a candle at the dinner table, but without all the hard work”.
The product initially gave the impression to be a joke, although its itemizing on the corporate’s on-line retailer led Twitter customers to explain it as “world class trolling”.
Others have been much less impressed, with one individual tweeting: “Sad thing is… he thinks he’s funny when is is just so incredibly lame.”
It is the most recent uncommon fundraising initiative for The Boring Company, having beforehand offered a modified roofing torch dubbed ‘Not-A-Flamethrower’, which offered out inside days after happening sale in 2018.
A restricted version hat, marketed as “the world’s most boring hat”, additionally offered out in 2017, with each items of merchandise quickly listed with large markups on third get together websites like eBay.
Another of Mr Musk’s firm’s, the electrical automobile producer Tesla, has additionally produced novelty merchandise, promoting a $250 bottle of Tesla tequila after initially teasing it as an April Fool’s joke.
Mr Musk tweeted on Tuesday: “With a name like mine, getting into the fragrance business was inevitable. Why did I even fight it for so long?!”
The Independent has reached out to The Boring Company for remark.
Since launching in 2016, the tunnel-digging enterprise has constructed a Loop transit system below Las Vegas to move passengers between three stations in Teslas beneath the Nevada metropolis, although extra bold tasks of chopping down Los Angeles visitors are but to be realised.
“A large network of tunnels many levels deep would help alleviate congestion in any city, no matter how large it grew (just keep adding levels),” the corporate’s web site states.
“The key to making this work is increasing tunnelling speed and dropping costs by a factor of 10 or more – this is the goal of The Boring Company.”
Source: www.impartial.co.uk