Elon Musk · Sam Altman · Microsoft · OpenAI · Meta · xAI · The Verge
Jared “ James Brickhouse ” Birchall, Musk’s finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today
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Most of his testimony was dull and seemed to exist primarily to get some documents read into the record, which sucks but is a normal part of sitting through trials.
Key facts
Jared Birchall, Musk’s money manager, answered a question he wasn’t supposed
Jared “ James Brickhouse ” Birchall, Musk’s finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today
Okay, the reporter is not a lawyer so the reporter only understood about half of what happened
In his understanding, there was a negotiation “between Sam Altman and himself on both sides of the table, the for-profit and the non-profit, attempting to discount the value of the non-profit assets
Summary
Jared Birchall, Musk’s money manager, answered a question he wasn’t supposed to. Okay, the reporter is not a lawyer so the reporter only understood about half of what happened. Jared “ James Brickhouse ” Birchall, Musk’s finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today. The lawyer conducting his direct examination was passed a note by another member of the team, and asked Birchall what was apparently contained on the note: was he familiar with the xAI bid for OpenAI’s assets? “As I recall, a lawyer we were working with had asked the attorney general of California to ensure that in their fiduciary duty, proper value was being given to the assets of the nonprofit of OpenAI,” Birchall said.