The chain of text messages, which were disclosed in a Delaware court filing, indicate that the two men had a love of engineering and had been on good terms for a short time.
At that point, Elon Musk invested in the shares of the social media company and was suggesting ideas to improve it.
As reported by the BBC, Agrawal wrote in a March 27 correspondence: “Aylon, it’s great to be in touch directly.”
The recordings show that Musk liked the message and that they arranged to meet around 8 p.m.
A few days later, on March 31, they arranged to meet again for dinner near San Jose, where the momentum of discussion over the deal accelerated.
After that, Agrawal said the dinner was “memorable for multiple reasons”, adding that he “really enjoyed it”.
A few days later, when it was announced that Musk would join the board, Agrawal said he was “very excited”.
The Associated Press reported that Musk wrote in one of the text conversations: “I love our conversations!”
On April 5, Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, described Agrawal to Musk as a “fantastic engineer”, but claimed the company’s board was “terrible”.
Two days later, Agrawal and Musk seemed to communicate well, with Musk writing, “I interact better with engineers who are able to do hard programming.”
Agrawal replied, “At our next meeting, treat me as an engineer instead of a CEO and let’s see where we go.”
However, on April 9 came Musk’s fateful tweet, in which he publicly suggested that the Twitter platform was faltering, straining their developing relationship.
In the following messages, Agrawal questioned Musk about his public criticism of Twitter, describing his comments as unhelpful and “internal distractions”.
Elon Musk then spent months claiming that the company lied to him about the proportion of these fake accounts and spam on the social network, which means he doesn’t have to carry out the $44 billion deal.
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