Elon Musk wins access to files from Twitter’s former head of product

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In the Delaware Court of Chancery, Musk's lawyers got a partial victory this week with a request for information from 22 employees of the micro-blogging site, as well as 41 others that both sides already agreed on for sharing data. Kayvon Beykpour, the former head of consumer product at Twitter, was one of the people who had to provide documents.

With the October 17th trial date for the lawsuit against Musk for trying to break up their deal drawing closer, his lawyers are trying to find something to shore up their arguments. According to an anonymous source, Musk's lawyers were trying to get information from employees who ranged from mid-level execs to lower-level employees, as well as the methods used to get the information.

According to the countersuit, the company put walls in the way of Musk's attempts to verify data about how many daily active users are actually bots.

Beykpour was described as responsible for deciding what toolsTwitter actually builds for people to express themselves when he appeared on our show. The tools included Super Follows, the live audio spaces rooms, and its newsletters.

Beykpour was fired along with the revenue leader, Bruce Falck, in one sweeping move by the new CEO. Beykpour said that paragliding asked him to leave after he told him he wanted to take the team in a different way.

Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Musk, said they look forward to reviewing Beykpour's communications and will continue to seek information and witnesses.