Musk sold billions of dollars worth of his Tesla holdings to finance the Twitter takeover and has been embroiled in controversy ever since.

The cuts affected a total of 983 employees in California, its home state, according to three letters of notice that the company sent to regional authorities, which were obtained by CNBC.

While the Covid pandemic was raging in 2020 — with much of the world in lockdown and more turning to online shopping — Chrisanti Indiana did the unexpected.