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Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk should sell 10% of his stock in the company, according to responses from a Twitter user poll.

Musk on Saturday asked his followers in a Twitter poll whether they supported him selling 10% of his Tesla stock, which in turn generated 57.9% of respondents favoring of his sale of the stock. The value of 10% of Musk’s shares is estimated to be about $25 billion, according to Investopedia.

“Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock,” Musk wrote on Twitter. “I will abide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes.”

Musk tweeted that he doesn’t take a cash salary or bonus from anywhere. He wrote the only way he can pay taxes personally is to sell stock.

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 “I was prepared to accept either outcome,” Musk wrote on Twitter after the poll closed. 

Musk owns over 190 million shares, or over 20% of Tesla’s outstanding stock, which is valued at about $250 billion, according to Investopedia.

Tesla and Hertz Global HTZZ have been negotiating a timeline for delivery of the rental car company’s order for 100,000 electric vehicles, according to a Wall Street Journal report Thursday. Hertz had said that it placed an initial order of 100,000 Tesla cars “by the end of 2022.”

Shares of Tesla on Friday declined 0.4% to $1,216.70 after hours. The stock fell 0.6% in the regular session.