As Elon Musk puts the finishing touches on his $44 billion dollar deal to buy Twitter, the world’s richest man continues to consult with a coterie of loyal confidants, investors, board members and researchers who are part of his inner circle.They include young scientists who head up research into Artificial Intelligence at companies such as Tesla Motors and Neuralink, a brain-implanted startup he controls. There are also longtime investors, a celebrity lawyer and Musk’s younger brother — all of them unflinching when it comes to Musk’s mercurial approach to business and innovation.“When Elon says something, you have to pause and not blurt out ‘Well, that’s impossible,'” said Gwynne Shotwell, an engineer and head of Musk’s space exploration company, SpaceX, at a 2018 TED conference in Vancouver. “You zip it, you think about it, and you find ways to get it done. I’ve always felt like my job was to take these ideas and turn them into company goals, to make them achievable.”
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