2025-10-08
Armstrong has been working with xAI for several weeks and was formally appointed chief financial officer of the company in recent days. The change of CFO at xAI comes as Musk contends with a spate of senior departures across his businesses. Linda Yaccarino, chief executive of X,
Financial Times
Sources: Elon Musk has appointed former Morgan Stanley banker Anthony Armstrong as CFO of xAI; Armstrong will also take over financial management for X
Financial Times :
2023-08-13
This summer, Dylan, a 22-year-old trainee lawyer from the Jersey Shore, decided to come clean to his family and friends about a shameful secret: he had borrowed and gambled $50,000 in just over a year. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
How SCOTUS overturning the sports betting ban in 2018 transformed the sector into a high-growth tech business; many fear a surge in gambling addiction is coming
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2023-06-27
Elon Musk has told people he microdoses ketamine for depression, and he also takes full doses of ketamine at parties, according to the people who have witnessed his drug use and others who have direct knowledge of it. https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
How routine drug use by Silicon Valley executives moved from an after-hours activity squarely into corporate culture, causing issues for boards and tech leaders
Entrepreneurs including Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are part of a drug movement that proponents hope will expand minds, enhance lives and produce business breakthroughs
2022-10-31
One person involved in the debt financing described the due diligence on the deal as “easy”, because “there was none”. https://www.ft.com/...
Washington Post
Source: Elon Musk plans to lay off 25% of Twitter's workforce in the coming days, focusing on sales, product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety
The first round of layoffs, led by his lawyer Alex Spiro, will target 25 percent of the workforce — SAN FRANCISCO …
One person involved in the debt financing described the due diligence on the deal as “easy”, because “there was none”. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources detail the twists and turns in Elon Musk's $44B Twitter takeover, starting in March, falling apart, and then closing late on October 27
Even as his $44bn buyout came down to the wire, Elon Musk kept Twitter guessing. — Normally, lawyers and advisers on each side …