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Elizabeth Lopatto

Elizabeth Lopatto

Senior Reporter

Senior Reporter

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elon Musk borrowed $1 billion from SpaceX last year around the time he acquired Twitter.

    Musk drew on the money last October and paid it back, with interest, in November, according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s not clear why he borrowed the money. It’s an awful lot! SpaceX had $4.7 billion in cash and securities on hand at the end of last year, WSJ reports.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    “Yes, it is a Ponzi structure. But it is not a Ponzi.”

    In this entertaining excerpt from Zeke Faux’s forthcoming book, we get a glimpse of the crypto Bahamas conference before Sam Bankman-Fried’s fall. Pretty fun stuff! Seems like Michael Lewis was all-in on SBF, among other nuggets here.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Be careful on Instagram if your name is Taylor and you aren’t Taylor Swift.

    Apparently a bunch of Taylors are being badly moderated by Instagram:

    “This afternoon, hundreds of people named Taylor (myself included) had their Instagram accounts disabled for a violation of community guidelines- simply because our profiles had our names listed,” one affected Taylor, Taylor Camp, told Bloomberg via email. Even some accounts that added the phrase “Taylor’s version” to their Instagram handle — a reference to her re-recorded tracks — had their accounts restricted.

    Instagram confirmed it had disabled some accounts “in error.”

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Walter Isaacson recounts how Elon Musk bought Twitter.

    There aren’t a lot of surprises here, but there’s a lot more color on the events we all saw: Musk’s capriciousness about the deal, the attempt to recreate the dot-com boom company X, and Musk’s dialogue with Sam Bankman-Fried.

    One new petty detail: Musk was determined to fire then-CEO Parag Agrawal before Agrawal could quit — and so Musk cut Agrawal off from Twitter email, preventing Agrawal from sending his resignation letter.