A number of former Twitter executives filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging Elon Musk illegally tried to stiff them out of severance totaling roughly $128 million. Musk is portrayed within the lawsuit as a petty and vindictive man who, “makes use of his wealth and energy to run roughshod over anybody who disagrees with him.” And it will get much more pointed in its assaults from there.
The lawsuit, a duplicate of which was first printed by Platformer, was introduced by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, former CFO Ned Segal, and former Twitter attorneys Vijaya Gadde and Sean Edgett. And their attorneys aren’t holding again with regards to methods to explain Musk.
Musk agreed to buy Twitter in early 2022 for $44 billion earlier than making an attempt to again out of the deal. After a court docket in Delaware pressured Musk to undergo with the acquisition, the billionaire took management and fired just about everybody in prime management. Musk mentioned he fired them “for trigger,” believing he wouldn’t have to pay big severance packages to the executives, however this lawsuit will reply that query.
Musk would go on to make different dramatic modifications to the positioning, together with altering its title to X and permitting anybody with $8 to purchase a blue “verification” checkmark. X doesn’t really confirm the id of anybody with a checkmark, which implies anybody can now get boosted by the social media site’s algorithm for the low, low worth of simply $8.
One factor that shines by within the lawsuit is that Musk’s phrases are getting used towards him, together with quotes from Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire published in 2023.
Click on by the slideshow to see a few of the most brutal quotes from the lawsuit, which don’t spare the billionaire’s emotions.
