"push Horse Battle" escalates again: Musk's Silicon Valley circle of close friends, Twitter is disgusting one by one

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Twitter has reason to believe that this group of people may be behind the acquisition, as well as the farce of failure.

Readers should know that Musk backed out on his acquisition of Twitter. Twitter was obviously not satisfied with the $1 billion break-up fee stipulated in the contract and directly sued Musk for malicious breach of contract.

The world's richest man couldn't accept being pecked by a bird, so Musk filed a counterclaim last week.

Seeing that Musk rebelled, Twitter was completely on the head. It is true to say that the performance of Twitter is not good, and the checking and killing of water army accounts are not effective, but how can we be strong in legal affairs?

Twitter suddenly issued a subpoena to a group of Musk's Silicon Valley friends on Monday, asking them to spit out all communications related to the acquisition, including time records, presentations, meeting minutes, notes and recordings, the Washington Post reported.

Unlike friends whose wives can be deceived, these subpoenas are all Musk's "true friends" in Silicon Valley.

These people and Musk have started a business together, but also invested in each other's follow-up companies, can be said to share happiness and hardship, "worship the son" level brothers.

What's more, when they are singled out, they are all-powerful in the start-up / investment circle of Silicon Valley, the top big figures: well-known venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Keith Rabois, SPAC godfather Chamath and so on.

Several Silicon Valley bosses subpoenaed this time, the David Friedberg on the top left has nothing to do with this incident. Photo Source: All-in Podcast

What kind of chess is this?

Musk's top stream in Silicon Valley“Circle of close friends”

What does the moments of the richest man in the world look like? Just look at this subpoena.

Marc Andreessen：Famous technology entrepreneur, Netscape founder, later founded the well-known venture capital organization A16Z, put forward the famous "software engulfing the world" thesis, because the bald head + unique shape, people give the nickname "egg head".

Andreessen and Musk have been friends for many years and invested together in the company, which led to conflicts of interest in order to participate in the takeover of Twitter (he is a member of Facebook/Meta 's board of directors). He is also a member of Musk's Shadow Legion.

Steve Jurvetson：Famous venture capitalist, founder and former partner of investment institution Defengjie.

Jurvetson has been a good friend of Musk for many years and served as a director of Tesla, Inc. from 2006 to 2020. In addition, both of them have sexual assault scandals... Jurvetson left Defengjie, which he founded, and was voted out of the company for sexually assaulting subordinates and lying.

Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis: all are well-known venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. They are put together because the three of them are a "small group" themselves.

Chamath was an early executive of Facebook Inc, then made an investment, and later became the biggest winner of the popular concept of SPAC ("bad check company", a way of reverse merger listing), known as the king of SPAC.

Chamath is a good friend of Musk and has often made trouble together in recent years, such as the GameStop Kongkong incident last year, in which the two were strong supporters of the retail side (and pretended to break with their rich camp); Sacks and Musk worked together in PayPal Holdings Inc and were members of the well-known PayPal Holdings Inc gang; Calacanis was also a friend of Musk. Sacks, Calacanis and Chamath also co-operate a podcast brand called All-In, and Musk has participated as a guest in podcasts and offline events organized by the brand.

First from left to third from left: David Sacks, Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya Photo Source: All-In Podcast

In additionKeith Rabois和Joe LonsdaleAnd others also received a subpoena.

Rabois is also a member of the PayPal Holdings Inc gang. Although Lonsdale is not a member, he can be regarded as a "little fan" of this group, because he has a close relationship with these people because of the similar experiences of Palantir and 8VC. In addition, Lonsdale also has a history of sexually assaulting subordinates.

As you can see, one of the key social relationships of this group is the "PayPal Holdings Inc gang", but at the same time they have long gone beyond that category.

Now this group of people are more around Musk, forming a "circle of close friends"-after all, Musk is truly the richest man in the world, his personality is extremely strong, and he is interested in building his own social circle and even having his own "followers".

Andreessen once borrowed directly from the media's description of Musk's "circle of close friends" and said half-jokingly that Musk was surrounded by a "shadow legion" full of all kinds of "misfits", encouraging him to do all kinds of strange things (egginghimon).

Do you think Twitter can stop messing with these people?

If you can't handle Musk, how many boys can you take care of?

Twitter's logic for subpoenaing these people should be very simple:

As Musk's close friends, this group has had quite frequent and close business / financial exchanges and intelligence exchanges. In addition, Jack Dorsey, the former boss of Twitter, once wandered around the edge of this circle and naturally knew something about the inside story. What's more, Andreessen himself is half-sure that these people will encourage each other to do something.

That is why when the Twitter asked the banks involved in the financing to provide evidence, it also forced them to submit communications related to the Musk cronies-Twitter had reason to believe that the acquisition and the farce that failed might be "scheming" behind the acquisition.

Or, even if they are not directly involved in the transaction, because Musk trusts them, the communication between them may contain some information good for Twitter, which can be used as "black material" to torture Musk in court in the future.

AndTwitterAnother effect has been achieved this time, that is, the small groups that are openly messing with Musk are coming to disgust them.

Why do you say so:TwitterHas spoken to Bank of America,Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and other banks, andFidelity、VY CapitalWait for the investment institution to send the sameSubpoenas, and these institutions are openly involved in acquisition financing transactions.

And what about Musk's bad friends? They know that the only people involved in the transaction areAndreessen和CalacanisOther people didn't pay at all, they just stood outside and ate melons.……And it turned out to beTwitterIt's a flag sacrifice.

Musk is the guest of the latest All-In Podcast offline event recording Photo Source: Emmet Peppers / Twitter

Then maybe someone wants to ask from the point of view of these bosses:你TwitterIf you mess with us like this, aren't you afraid that we'll get together to screw you later?

TwitterIt's rotten, it's true.But at the same time, it does have a good chance of success. The Washington Post interviewed Adam Badawi, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who pointed out a key fact:

This group of people are venture capitalists, and their portfolio companies basically have to register entities in Delaware in order to enjoy more favorable business policies. This means that if they dare to disobey a legally valid subpoena and refuse to submit relevant records, they will provoke the local court, and there will be no good results.……

In other words, in order to abide by the law, but also to protect their own interests, this group of people will have to abide by the legal constraints of subpoenas and submit relevant documents. and at the expense of "betraying" Musk to some extent-of course, this is only a possibility.

Another possibility is that they think that the relationship with Musk, the richest man in the world, is more important, and no one can betray this good brother and brother.……

Anyway, at the moment, several people in this group have expressed resistance, or at least disgust.

David Sacks first made a huge "you know" gesture:

Later, he should have been a little calmer and began to take advantage of the topic, saying that the group of people who received subpoenas should be the latest Midas List members:

“Little brother"Joe LonsdaleI panicked a little bit:

Lol,Twitter 's lawyer sent subpoenas to several of our best friends in the ecosystem, which was a huge harassment fishing scam. I had nothing to do with the deal, except for a few bitter complaints, but Twitter used such a tough tone. "

Photo Source: Joe Lonsdale

The netizen below saw Lonsdale's guilt: "in that case, you only have to show the court these contents, don't you?"

Author: spectrum, du Chen, source of this article:Silicon Man, the original title: "the Battle of the push Horse" is upgraded: Musk's Silicon Valley circle of friends, Twitter is disgusting one by one》

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