Elon Musk Added to Twitter Board of Directors

He purchased 9.2% of the company’s stock March 14

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What does roughly $3.5 billion worth of stock get you these days? If you’re mega-entrepreneur Elon Musk, it gets you a seat on Twitter’s board of directors.

One day after news broke that Musk had purchased 73,486,938 Twitter shares March 14, representing 9.2% of the company’s stock, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal revealed in a tweet Tuesday, “I’m excited to share that we’re appointing Elon Musk to our board. Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our board.

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