Sits During his business meetings, he defends him on X and travels to talk about how she raised him, the richest man in the world – but who is Elon Musk’s mother? Today in the series we learn everything about the model, influential and original Maye Musk, while making her latest trips to China and its possible influence on foreign policy.
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Michael Heat: Hey, Zoë, what does your mother call you?
Zoë Schiffer: I feel that I will risk a lot of my credibility if I tell you, so I will tell you that many people call me zoe.
Michael Heat: All right.
Zoë Schiffer: This is what my name looks like.
Michael Heat: If you don’t have umlaut over E, it just looks like a zoe?
Zoë Schiffer: Yes, because there is no y, so people are always wrong. I say: “Oh, no, my parents call me zoe. Don’t worry about it.”
Lauren Goode: Oh. Right, right. Like Zooey Deschanel, you have y, right? Yes, okay.
Michael Heat: But she is zooey.
Lauren Goode: I’ve never thought about it before.
Michael Heat: Is she not? Is she not Zooey?
Lauren Goode: No, she is zooey.
Zoë Schiffer: Just like Franny and Zooey are Zooey, but it’s Zooey, Franny and Zooey. Anyway, Mike, like your parents, what did you call you when you were little?
Lauren Goode: It deviates very much. I don’t want to tell us a real nickname.
Zoë Schiffer: I can’t. I just feel that I already have too much cheater team.
Michael Heat: For a very long time my mother referred to me with my full name Michael, like my father.
Lauren Goode: What is your middle name?
Michael Heat: Seth.
Lauren Goode: Did they call you Michael Seth?
Michael Heat: On very, very occasional occasions.
Zoë Schiffer: Seth can really be your first name. It seems to me that it almost suits.
Lauren Goode: Oh yes. You are Seth.
Michael Heat: Am I presenting myself as Seth?
Zoë Schiffer: A little bit. Seth Rising, if you want.
Michael Heat: All right.