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Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives

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Re: Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives

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When you have unlimited resources to be a helicopter parent and no requirement to do any of the typical parental scaling work of raising them yourself, why not?

Are you asking why not have sex with your subordinate? A whole slew of moral and legal reasons, for one.

100% agree.

Mollusk is revealed as a cult leader and polygamist.

Re: Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives

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Can someone please explain what someone like this executive does professionally?

It's in the article — she seems to have had a substantial role at Tesla and Neuralink's AI teams:

Zilis is a rising star in Musk's empire. Born in Markham, Ontario, Zilis received her bachelor's degree in economics and philosophy in 2008 from Yale, where she also played goalie on the women's ice-hockey team. A lifelong athlete, she has been pictured on social media surfing, zip-lining, and ice climbing. After beginning her career at IBM, she joined the early-stage venture-capital fund Bloomberg Beta, where she led investment efforts in data and machine learning. She was on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in the venture-capital category in 2015.

Zilis met Musk through her work with OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence research-and-deployment nonprofit Musk cofounded in 2015. She serves as the youngest member of OpenAI's board of directors. In 2017, Zilis moved to Tesla, where she was a project director, deploying her AI expertise on the Autopilot and chip-design teams. Today she holds the title of director of operations and special projects for Neuralink, where Musk is a co-CEO. She previously worked as a project director in the CEO's office. She's recently been floated as one of the people Musk could tap to run Twitter after his acquisition.

During Zilis' tenure at Neuralink, the company has conducted surgical trials of its Bluetooth-enabled brain chips on monkeys and pigs and enabled a nine-year-old macaque to play the video game Pong using its brain. Musk has suggested human trials could start by the end of 2022.

Re: Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives

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Can someone please explain what someone like this executive does professionally?

It's in the article — she seems to have had a substantial role at Tesla and Neuralink's AI teams: Zilis is a rising star in Musk's empire. Born in Markham, Ontario, Zilis received her bachelor's degree in economics and philosophy in 2008 from Yale, where she also played goalie on the women's ice-hockey team. A lifelong athlete, she has been pictured on social media surfing, zip-lining, and ice climbing. After beginni…

I read the article. It’s not clear to me what this person’s job actually entails.

Re: Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives

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Richest man impregnates someone who is hot and willing. Why is this news?

Elon shouldn't be sleeping or hitting on his employees (see: exposing himself to a flight attendant). She's also on the board of one of his companies and held that position for less than a year before becoming pregnant with his children.

Re: Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives

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Richest man impregnates someone who is hot and willing. Why is this news?

Elon shouldn't be sleeping or hitting on his employees (see: exposing himself to a flight attendant). She's also on the board of one of his companies and held that position for less than a year before becoming pregnant with his children.

He only comes in contact with his executives. If out of them someone wants to be in a sexual relationship with him, that is their prerogative. A lot of companies have rules to clarify with HR when something like this happens.
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