Musk Subpoenas Stanford University in Legal Spat With Twitter
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk subpoenaed Stanford University on Aug. 31 as part of a legal dispute regarding his abandoned takeover bid of Twitter.
The subpoena asked for documents of all “conversations, conferences, discussions, interviews, meetings, negotiations, and agreements” between Twitter and Stanford, as well as anyone linked to the university regarding the $44 billion scrapped deal, according to Bloomberg. It is unclear what connection Stanford has with the Twitter deal. However, multiple people involved in the deal have ties with the university.
Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal is a Stanford alumnus, with a Ph.D. in computer science. One of the Twitter board members, Fei-Fei Li, is a computer science professor at Stanford….