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Kylie Robison

Meet the two Musk cousins Elon called upon to swing the ax

(Credit: Nathan Laine—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

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.

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