{"id":134914,"date":"2022-01-30T04:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/teen-who-turned-down-5000-from-elon-musk-to-shut-down-a-twitter-account-tracking-the-billionaires-jet-says-he-gets-too-much-work-satisfaction-to-settle-for-less-than-50000"},"modified":"2022-01-30T04:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T12:23:01","slug":"teen-who-turned-down-5000-from-elon-musk-to-shut-down-a-twitter-account-tracking-the-billionaires-jet-says-he-gets-too-much-work-satisfaction-to-settle-for-less-than-50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/teen-who-turned-down-5000-from-elon-musk-to-shut-down-a-twitter-account-tracking-the-billionaires-jet-says-he-gets-too-much-work-satisfaction-to-settle-for-less-than-50000","title":{"rendered":"Teen who turned down $5,000 from Elon Musk to shut down a Twitter account tracking the billionaire\u2019s jet says he gets too much work satisfaction to settle for less than $50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teen-who-turned-down-5000-from-elon-musk-to-shut-down-a-twitter-account-tracking-the-billionaires-jet-says-he-gets-too-much-work-satisfaction-to-settle-for-less-than-50000.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sweeney responded: \u201cSounds doable, account and all my help. Any chance to up that to $50K?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old cited college funding and told the billionaire the money could go towards buying a Tesla Model 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done a lot of work on this and 5k is not enough,\u201d Sweeney said in an interview with Insider. He added $5,000 wasn\u2019t enough to replace \u201cthe fun I have in this, working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweeney responded: \u201cSounds doable, account and all my help. Any chance to up that to $50K?\u201d The 19-year-old cited college funding and told the billionaire the money could go towards buying a Tesla Model 3. \u201cI\u2019ve done a lot of work on this and 5k is not enough,\u201d Sweeney said in an interview with Insider. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}