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I assure you the release of my book HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk on the same day as this is an insane coincidence but I will promote the hell out of it regardless
Faiz Siddiqui
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Faiz Siddiqui
@faizsays
Tech reporter @washingtonpost. HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk out NOW (St. Martin's). @faizsays.bsky.social | DMs open, Signal at 513-659-9944
- NEW: Elon Musk was working unlawfully when he built the startup that made him a millionaire in the 1990s, according to interviews, documents and records obtained by The Washington Post. Board members found out and mobilized to fix it: "We don't want our founder being deported."🧵
- NEW: Documents show why Apple pulling its Twitter ads is devastating for Elon Musk: In the first quarter of 2022, Apple was Twitter's top advertiser, accounting for nearly $50M in revenue
- NEW: Elon Musk sent a Signal message ordering his staff to aid in the Twitter Files: "please give Bari [Weiss] full access to everything at Twitter. No limits at all.” That triggered a frenzy inside Twitter, which was under a decade-old FTC order.
- New: Tesla said it didn't have critical data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. "For any reasonable person, it was obvious the data was there." The story of white hat hacker @greentheonly's role in the case the led to a $243 million verdict against Tesla.
- 🚨 Tesla posts a $400M profit, down 71% year-over-year. Revenue is down nearly $2B compared to the same time last year. Wow.
- Replying to @faizsaysSTORY: Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally wapo.st/4e0PdyI via @mariasacchetti @NickMiroff and me
- Replying to @faizsaysMusk, who has emerged as the foremost critic of "open borders," has described his immigration status at the time as a "gray area." But Zip2's one-time CEO Derek Proudian said Musk's status "was not what it should be" in order "to be legally employed running a company in the U.S."
- Did I...pick up Lee Iacocca’s copy of Ralph Nader’s “Unsafe at Any Speed” for $5 at an LA bookstore?
- BREAKING: Jan. 21, 2017, was the second-busiest day in Metro history, with 1,001,613 trips. #wmata
- A fun thing to happened to me today, as an adult, is Elon Musk’s security guy shushed me and made a little zip-it motion as I was asking questions
- 🚨 Employees of Musk’s SpaceX now have email addresses at the FAA, which regulates it. FAA is eyeing Starlink for a major contract previously awarded to Verizon that Musk has criticized. Multiple senior FAA officials have refused to sign paperwork authorizing the switch
- Replying to @faizsaysMusk has said that "just as when hiring for a company, we should confirm that anyone allowed into the country is talented, hardworking and ethical.” In Musk's own case, a key investor said: "Perhaps naively we never examined whether he was a legal citizen."
- Replying to @faizsaysMusk's immigration status became a focal point as the startup was considering going public because it would be relevant to any securities filing. An initial investment in Musk's startup was contingent on the founders obtaining legal work status within 45 days.
