Tesla launches $2 billion stock offering after Elon Musk said ‘it doesn’t make sense’

Photo by STR / AFP via Getty Images Tesla has announced that it will sell $2 billion of common stock in a new public offering, just days after CEO Elon Musk said it wouldn’t “make sense” to raise more cash. The company says it plans to use the proceeds from the offering “to further strengthen its balance sheet, as well as for general corporate purposes.”Musk will buy up to $10 million worth of stock in the offering, while billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison &m