IN PICs | The Five Trusted Lieutenants Of Elon Musk At Twitter

Jared Birchall is the head of the family office that manages Elon Musk's assets. Birchall, a former Morgan Stanley banker, has advised Musk on his interactions with Wall Street for several years. [Image: LinkedIn]

David Sacks is a venture capitalist and a long-time associate of Elon Musk. He worked with Musk at PayPal where he was the COO. Sacks appeared in a Twitter company directory with an official Twitter email and the title ‘staff software engineer, according to The Washington Post. [Image: LinkedIn]

Indian-origin Sriram Krishnan, a former Twitter employee, last month revealed that he's helping Elon Musk with Twitter temporarily. He is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) which is venture capital fund that invests in crypto and web3 start-ups. [Image: LinkedIn]

Jason Calacanis is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and a close associate of Elon Musk. He, through a poll last month, first tested waters on paid verification for Twitter accounts, asking how much users would be willing to pay for the blue tick mark that Twitter has historically used to verify higher-profile authentic accounts. [Image: LinkedIn]

A high-profile celebrity lawyer, Alex Spiro, is a long-time legal representative of Elon Musk. He is a graduate from Harvard Law School and a partner at the law firm Quinn Emanuel. It is Spiro who led conversations on the mass layoff of employees at Twitter. In December 2019, Spiro had represented Musk in a defamation case linked to the latter’s comments on the rescue of a Thai boys football team and their assistant coach from a cave in Thailand. [Image: Getty]