Last Updated: February 11, 2024, 16:47 IST
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Elon Musk started making an attempt to amass 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 e book, written by Bloomberg’s Kurt Wagner, titled ‘Battle for the Bird’
In a giant revelation concerning Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s much-talked-about Twitter (Now X) acquisition, it has come to mild that Musk started making an attempt to amass the micro-blogging platform after its former CEO Parag Agrawal denied his request to close down a deal with that was monitoring the placement of the billionaire’s non-public jet, @ElonJet.
The disclosure was penned in a e book, written by Bloomberg’s Kurt Wagner, titled ‘Battle for the Bird.’ Interestingly, the knowledge got here out after the primary excerpt of the e book was revealed by Wagner’s employer. The e book is because of be launched on February 20.
As per the revealed excerpt of the e book, Elon Musk first contacted Parag Agrawal in January 2022 concerning the account — @ElonJet, run by American programmer Jack Sweeney, a scholar on the University of Central Florida.
Notably, Sweeney by a number of accounts additionally tracks down info of the non-public jet journey of a number of distinguished figures, together with ex-US President Donald Trump, standard singer Taylor Swift, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, amongst others. Swift has even threatened to sue the faculty scholar.
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 amass Twitter in October 2022.
Days after his Twitter acquisition, Musk sacked Agarwal, the primary Indian-origin CEO of the tech big, and others.
@ElonJet deal with was additionally taken down from Twitter after Musk accomplished the cope with the micro-blogging platform. However, Sweeney nonetheless posts journey knowledge of Musk’s airplane on different social networking websites.
Source web site: www.news18.com
