Musk’s Talks With Twitter All Started With Dorsey, Durban

  • Proxy filing details days of meeting with board members
  • Musk discussed Twitter strategy with Agrawal and Dorsey
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While it’s anyone’s guess how Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover attempt of Twitter will end, there is some clarity over how it started.

The key relationships in the run-up to Musk’s takeover offer revolve around calls with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and board member Egon Durban, managing partner at private equity firm Silver Lake who helped Musk on his ill-fated 2018 attempt to take Tesla Inc. private, according to a US securities filing on Tuesday.