However this time, it’s the identical execs who compelled Musk to shut his $44 billion acquisition within the first place, who are actually claiming his objective was to “cheat” them out of $200 million earlier than their inventory choices vested the following morning. In addition they have a remarkably thorough supply to elucidate why he closed the deal and fired them when he did: Elon Musk himself, as quoted by Walter Isaacson within the biography launched final yr, Elon Musk.
“There’s a 200-million differential within the cookie jar between closing tonight and doing it tomorrow morning,” he advised me late Thursday afternoon within the conflict room because the plan unfolded.
One other passage cited from the ebook calls out a dialog between Musk and his lawyer, Alex Spiro. “[H]e tried to resign … however we beat him,” they stated, particularly referring to Agrawal. By firing Agrawal earlier than he was capable of ship a resignation letter, they apparently believed it could imply the corporate wouldn’t need to pay his severance package deal.
Regardless of claims made by Elon Musk’s X about negligence, waste, and misconduct, the lawsuit argues it was approved by the corporate’s board and essential to do issues like pay the attorneys who compelled Elon Musk to pay $44 billion for Twitter.