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...In today’s newsletter Hindenburg targets Jack Dorsey’s Block Private credit picks through the SVB wreckage Toshiba shareholders approve a take-private offer Hindenburg sounds off on Dorsey’s Cash App...
...Richard Nixon came to prominence by helping to convict which US State Department official of being a Soviet spy?...
...Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey also agreed to commit his own stake, worth roughly $1bn, to back Musk’s purchase, further reducing the financing pressure....
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...Dorsey added: “It was a business decision, it shouldn’t have been.”...
...He was brought in by former chief executive Jack Dorsey in the wake of a major and embarrassing hack on the company in July 2020....
...The new filings also detail Musk’s conversations with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey ahead of the $44bn takeover offer....
...Additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco...
...Another noted that having Dorsey’s ear had earned Agrawal a special place in the Twitter hierarchy....
...One former senior engineer says that co-founders Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey, who each served as CEO, were temperamentally incapable of standing behind difficult decisions in the face of criticism, making...
...You know, you’ve got Twitter founder Jack Dorsey on there, folks from the private investment firm Silver Lake. What are they going to say to all this?...
...Jack Dorsey and the BlockheadsWe discussed Jack Dorsey’s bitcoin ambitions on Wednesday and, hours later, his Square payments company renamed itself Block to reflect its dedication to crypto and the blockchain...
...Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, joined in the social media backlash against Facebook as the outage continued....
...Richard Waters and Hannah Murphy’s analysis of his plans to shake up Twitter show they could have unintended consequences....
...Jack Dorsey’s payments company Block — formerly known as Square — has dropped 74 per cent over the past year....
...Additional reporting by Richard Milne...
...Richard Waters’ latest column looks at how trading app Robinhood and crypto exchange Coinbase have become the vehicles for a boom in individual investing and speculation, as well as two of the most visible...
...Guests on Sir Richard Branson’s 74-acre private island cut their trip short, but the Virgin boss hunkered down in a wine cellar with around 60 staff, drilling holes into the shutters to reduce the force...
...(Jack Dorsey thinks it could bring about world peace.)...
...Jack Dorsey’s departure from the social media group last week, egged on by Elliott’s managing partner Jesse Cohn, twisted the knife even further....
...“I think the European approach is of only limited relevance to the US,” says Richard Hasen, a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine....
...Instead, the group has charted an aggressive growth strategy with the help of deep-pocketed shareholders like the US billionaire Ron Burkle and hospitality tycoon Richard Caring....
...Lex wonders what Square chief Jack Dorsey means when he says: “New ideas are found at intersections, and we believe there’s a compelling one between music and the economy.” 5....
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