Wednesday 2 November 2022 10:52 AM Musk enlists Tesla employees as well as investors and friends to help complete ... trends now
Elon Musk has reportedly enlisted more than 50 of his Tesla engineers to review Twitter code, after completing his takeover of the social media company, dissolving the board, and firing senior employees.
According to internal records seen by CNBC, Musk has brought over 50 of his Tesla staff who were mostly working on the electric car company's autopilot team, to review and work on code for Twitter.
The group includes over 50 members of staff from Tesla, two staff members from another of Musk's ventures building underground road networks, the Boring Company, and one person from Neuralink, a company that develops implantable brain-machine interfaces.
New Twitter CEO Elon Musk was pictured leaving his mother's New York City home to head back into Twitter's NYC office for his second day after completing the acquisition.
As well as employees, Musk has roped in other investors and friends to for the overhaul. Jared Birchall, the head of Musk's family office is now involved, as well as his angel investment and venture capitalist friends, Jason Calacanis and David Sacks.
A former Tesla engineer who has no involvement with Musk's Twitter plans told the Washington Post that Tesla engineers would have difficulty understanding the social media platform's code. The former employee said that someone used to coding Tesla tech would struggle to with the large spread-out social network code.
One significant difference is that Twitter runs using code written in Scala, and 18-year-old programming language, compared to the much older and less concise programming language Python used by Tesla.
Pictured: Musk following his security detail on Tuesday as he entered the back of Twitter's NYC headquarters.
Musk, clad in red Samurai armor, showed up at Heidi Klum's 21st annual Halloween Party at the Moxy Hotel in New York on Monday.
They former employee told the Washington Post: 'The idea of Elon being flanked by his Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter code is laughable.'
It is not yet known if Musk's new Twitter recruits will remain at the social media platform full-time or split schedules between the two companies.
Musk completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter last week on October 28. Almost immediately, the tech billionaire fired several of the social media company's top-level staff and dissolved its board.
Musk fired Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, general counsel Sean Edgett, as well as the policy and legal teams.
Musk will now take over as CEO, although publicly he has referred to himself as 'Chief Twit'.
Chief Marketing Officer Leslie Berland and head of product Jay Sullivan have also announced their departures.
Parag Agrawal, CEO of Twitter, was fired from his job by Musk soon after the takeover was complete. Agrawal is pictured in July 2022.
Chief People and Diversity Officer Dalana Brand announced on Tuesday in a LinkedIn post that she had resigned last week as well. General manager for core technologies Nick Caldwell confirmed his departure on Twitter, changing his profile bio to 'former Twitter exec' by Monday night.
Twitter's advertising chief, Sarah Personette, tweeted on Tuesday that she resigned following the exodus of nearly all the entire senior ranks.
It now looks like more Twitter staff could follow. Musk has plans to release a quarter of Twitter's workforce in his first round of layoffs after his $44billion takeover, according to reports.
It comes as the new Twitter CEO allegedly issued an ultimatum to the social media platform's engineers, telling them to revamp Twitter's verification system in less than a fortnight or face the sack.
