
When Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022, he didn't just bring his high-flying visions to transform it — he brought his cousins too.
In Walter Isaacson's biography of Musk, new details reveal just how far the family tree rooted itself during the infamous first days of the acquisition. In a chapter dubbed "Let that sink in," Isaacson writes that Musk's paternal cousins James Musk, a 29-year-old who could pass as Elon's mirror image, and his tech-savvy younger sibling, Andrew Musk, spearheaded code reviews and the layoffs of thousands.