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‘I don’t really have a business plan’: How Elon Musk wings It
As Twitter negotiated a sale to Elon Musk final thirty day period, the social media company pulled out a corporate takeover playbook. Musk, the world’s richest person, did the opposite. He had no prepare for how to finance or deal with Twitter, Musk informed a close affiliate. To force the $44 billion offer by, he turned to a compact inner circle, like Jared Birchall, the head of his relatives office, and Alex Spiro, his own law firm. And when Twitter resisted his overtures, Musk pressured the company with a string of tweets — some mischievous, some barbed and all impulsive. Tech billionaires like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Larry Site…