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Elon Musk's money wingman, Jared Birchall, is a Mormon ex-Morgan Stanley banker who's never even tweeted
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Elon Musk's money wingman, Jared Birchall, is a Mormon ex-Morgan Stanley banker who's never even tweeted

Elon Musk entrusts his affairs to the secretive and straightlaced ex-banker Jard Birchall

Haley Cuccinello
Business Insider UK, 2022
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Elon Musk is a controversial figure, known for pioneering entrepreneurship as the owner of Tesla and SpaceX. The director of Musk’s family office, Jared Birchall, is, by contrast, a quiet, devout Christian. As Hayley Cuccinello reports for Insider, he has worked for Musk’s foundations and companies since 2016, and he got into difficulties as part of a high-profile defamation suit against Musk. In return for Birchall’s loyalty, Musk entrusted him with raising capital for his proposed purchase of Twitter. While some of Birchall’s colleagues claim he lacks the experience for such a complex project, his willingness to put himself on the line for Musk sustains his boss’s faith.

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Jared Birchall and Elon Musk have little in common.

The director of Elon Musk’s family office, Jared Birchall, maintains a low profile, believes in serving his community, and is religious and socially conservative. Musk, on the other hand, uses recreational drugs and is famously rash and unrestrained. While the two men may have little in common, Musk trusts Birchall with enormous responsibilities at Excession, Musk’s family office, where Birchall has worked for six years.

Birchall started his career at Goldman, Sachs and then went to Merrill Lynch, where he developed a reputation for dedication, but not risk-taking. A former colleague describes Birchall as a moral, reliable person. He ...

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Hayley Cuccinello is a senior finance reporter for Insider (formerly Business Insider, which reports and aggregates financial and business news. 

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