Legal
Elon Musk Demands Ex-Twitter Product Chief Testify in Takeover Fight
- Kayvon Beykpour is dodging subpoenas, Musk lawyers claim
- Both sides seeking information before Oct. 17 Delaware trial
Kayvon Beykpour
Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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Elon Musk is demanding Twitter Inc. make the former head of its consumer division answer questions about spam or robot accounts on the social-media platform that are central to the billionaire’s legal fight to back out of a $44 billion buyout of the company.
Kayvon Beykpour, who oversaw more than 230 million Twitter accounts, has so far evaded efforts to make him turn over documents or provide testimony, according to a court filing unsealed Wednesday. Musk’s legal team says Beykpour is a key figure in their case because he was intimately involved with measuring how many accounts were revenue generating.