Wall Street Journal Claims ‘Shadow Crew’ of Billionaires Urged Musk to Buy Twitter

Wall Street Journal Claims ‘Shadow Crew’ of Billionaires Urged Musk to Buy Twitter
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Award ceremony in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2020. Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters
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Elon Musk responded on May 1 to a report from The Wall Street Journal, based on anonymous sources, that said the world’s richest man had been persuaded to buy Twitter by a “shadow crew.”

Marc Andreessen, general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, shared a screenshot of the story on Twitter, prompting a response from Musk.

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