- The 19-year-old tracking
Elon Musk 'sprivate jet has started selling merch to fund the endeavor. - Jack Sweeney's business sells shirts showing Musk smoking weed with the text "I know how high Elon is."
The teen who $4 has started selling merch of the billionaire smoking weed to fund his project.
Jack Sweeney told The Guardian on Wednesday that he has started a business called Ground Control to "monetize" his @ElonJet
Ground Control sells T-shirts, hoodies, and stickers showing Musk smoking weed during a 2018 appearance on $4 Besides the photo, the various products also bear the text, "I know how high Elon is," along with an image of Musk's jet and the @ElonJet Twitter handle.
Sweeney told Insider he created the LLC "a while back" and notes there are "not many sales, but I do have somewhat decent donations and AdSense," referring to Google's website monetization program.
His website will serve as a back-up to keep running his jet-tracking operation if Twitter takes down his account over security concerns, the 19-year-old told the Guardian. Musk said last month that social media accounts reporting his travel movements $4
Sweeney's jet-tracking account went viral last month after Protocol reported that Musk $4 The teen countered with an ask of $50,000 from the $4 and $4 CEO, and Musk said he'd consider it but ultimately decided it didn't "feel right."
Sweeney recently $4 CEO Joel Thomas of private charter flight company Stratos Jet Charters invited to teen to join the company's development team after seeing his "creativity" in starting the accounts, as The New York Post reported.
Sweeney told Bloomberg on Monday that Musk has since $4 Besides Musk, Sweeney also tracks the private jet movements of a handful of other billionaires, including $4