Last Updated: February 11, 2024, 16:47 IST
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Elon Musk started making an attempt to accumulate Twitter after its former CEO Parag Agrawal denied his request to close down a deal with @ElonJet. (File Photo)
The disclosure was penned in a ebook, written by Bloomberg’s Kurt Wagner, titled ‘Battle for the Bird’
In a giant revelation relating to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s a lot-talked-about Twitter (Now X) acquisition, it has come to mild that Musk started making an attempt to accumulate the micro-running a blog platform after its former CEO Parag Agrawal denied his request to close down a deal with that was monitoring the situation of the billionaire’s personal jet, @ElonJet.
The disclosure was penned in a ebook, written by Bloomberg’s Kurt Wagner, titled ‘Battle for the Bird.’ Interestingly, the data got here out after the primary excerpt of the ebook was printed by Wagner’s employer. The ebook is because of be launched on February 20.
As per the printed excerpt of the ebook, Elon Musk first contacted Parag Agrawal in January 2022 relating to the account — @ElonJet, run by American programmer Jack Sweeney, a pupil on the University of Central Florida.
Notably, Sweeney by a number of accounts additionally tracks down info of the personal jet journey of a number of outstanding figures, together with ex-US President Donald Trump, well-liked singer Taylor Swift, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, amongst others. Swift has even threatened to sue the faculty pupil.
It was after Parag Agrawal denied the Tesla CEO’s request led take away the account dealt with by Swwney, Musk began shopping for Twitter shares, which led him to have conversations with the platform’s co-founder Jack Dorsey.
Musk initially sought a seat on the board of administrators earlier than agreeing to purchase the social media platform outright. He then paid a whopping sum of $44 billion to accumulate Twitter in October 2022.
Days after his Twitter acquisition, Musk sacked Agarwal, the primary Indian-origin CEO of the tech large, and others.
@ElonJet deal with was additionally taken down from Twitter after Musk accomplished the cope with the micro-running a blog platform. However, Sweeney nonetheless posts journey knowledge of Musk’s airplane on different social networking websites.
