Elon Musk has been cutting his stake in the company for the fifth week in a row. This week he sold more than 934,000 shares, worth $963.2 million.
Also, he exercised stock options to buy 2.17 million shares of Tesla.
To fulfil his promise he earlier gave to sell a 10% stake in the company, he has 6 million more shares to sell. Musk's fortune, according to Forbes Real-Time, which tracks the wealth of billionaires in real-time, decreased by another 5.42%, or $ 15.1 billion.
Earlier, Musk pursued the sale initiative after a Twitter poll he published on his account, where he asked his followers to decide whether he should sell 10% of Tesla stock amid talks about "unrealised gains being a means of tax avoidance", to which more than a half of the respondents (57.9%) voted in favour.
Compared to the peak of the price on 4 November, when Musk first sold shares, their value has decreased by 18%.
Elon Musk remains the richest person in the world, with a fortune of $ 263.3 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time. His closest rival, the former head of Amazon, has $ 200.3 billion.