Friends of Elon Musk are not very happy about receiving a summons from Twitter as part of the company’s legal battle with the CEO of Tesla.
San Francisco-based Twitter is suing Musk in Delaware in an effort to complete a $44 billion sale of the social media company, a deal Musk is trying to get out of. According to a report from The Washington Post, Twitter’s legal team on Monday sought information about a group of investors and businessmen associated with Musk in a broad subpoena. Twitter declined to comment.
According to the Post, the subpoena contains “requests for communications, including ‘checklists, timelines, presentations, floors, conference calls, meetings, notes, records’ related to the deal’s finances.”
Prominent venture capitalists included in the subpoena, according to the report, are Marc Andreessen, founder of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz; former president of Facebook and CEO of Social Capital Chamath Palihapitiya; and David Sacks, chief operating officer of PayPal and current general partner at Craft Ventures.
Sacks posted on Monday on Twitter that “the news that Twitter lawyers are seeking to subpoena me reminds me of this Madiyya magazine issue, I don’t know why.” It includes a magazine cover photo showing a hand raising the middle finger.
Joe Lonsdale, senior partner at 8VC, called the Twitter summons sent to “friends in the ecosystem” surrounding Musk, Andreessen and Sacks “a big fishing trip.”
“I have nothing to do with this apart from a few scary comments, but I received the notification “POSE YOUR ORDER”, as he posted on Monday.
Representatives for Sacks, Andreessen and Palihapitiya did not immediately respond to messages for comment Tuesday. Lonsdale did not immediately respond to a message sent through LinkedIn.
