https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-says-saudi-fund-expressed-131755714.html > https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-taking-tesla-private?redirect=no on Monday." data-reactid="18">"Going back almost two years, the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund has approached me multiple times about taking Tesla private," Musk wrote in a blog post https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-taking-tesla-private?redirect=no on Monday. > "They first met with me at the beginning of 2017 to express this interest because of the important need to diversify away from oil. They then held several additional meetings with me over the next year to reiterate this interest and to try to move forward with a going private transaction.