Elon Reeve Musk FRS is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; president of Musk Foundation; and owner of Twitter, Inc.
Who Sold Twitter to Elon Musk?
In April 2022, business magnate Elon Musk offered to purchase American social media company Twitter, Inc., for $43 billion, after previously acquiring 9.1 percent of the company’s stock for $2.64 billion and becoming its largest shareholder.
This “wins for the weirdest place I’ve had a meeting recently”, he reportedly texted Mr. Musk. “I think they were looking for an Airbnb near the airport and there are tractors and donkeys,” he told him.
However, the meeting went swimmingly. A few days later it was announced that Mr. Musk was to join Twitter’s board.
Elon Musk clears out Twitter bosses in $44bn deal
That was only the beginning. The next six months would witness one of the craziest, on-off deals in Silicon Valley’s history.