Christopher Tsai

Christopher Tsai is a devoted investor in Elon Musk’s Tesla – and once a close childhood friend of the US president’s eldest son. sai Capital has tens of millions of dollars tied up in Tesla. Tsai Capital reportedly manages a portfolio of about $137m and holds which about 75,000 shares in Tesla as of its most recent quarterly filing. Christopher Tsai's father - Gerald Tsai Jr - became the chief executive officer of the financial services giant Primerica, which – along with its subsidiary Commercial Credit Group – helped build Citigroup. His father’s acquaintance with Donald Trump was close enough that, in his youth, Tsai considered Donald Trump Jr his best friend, vacationing with him and once going to a baseball game with his siblings, their mother and their father. Tsai said the younger Trump was one of the first people to whom he came out as a gay man. Gerald Tsai Jr. married and divorced four times and once survived crashing in a helicopter into New York’s Hudson River before his death in 2008, The younger Tsai for instance has been married to his spouse – with whom he is raising teenaged twins – since 2005.