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Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives
- pinewurst 4y agohttps://archive.ph/JBT2w https://archive.ph/JBT2w
- 37ef_ced3 4y agoYes, but did he buy her a horse?
- wmf 4y agoSounds like a $4M house instead.
- abrichr 4y agoCan someone please explain what someone like this executive does professionally?
- ngetchell 4y agoThe mother or the father?
- abrichr 4y agoThe mother.
- danso 4y agoIt'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.
- metadat 4y agoWhen 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?
- nrb 4y agoAre you asking why not have sex with your subordinate? A whole slew of moral and legal reasons, for one.
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- metadat 4y ago100% agree. Mollusk is revealed as a cult leader and polygamist.
- birdyrooster 4y agoExplains his interest in Jeffrey Epstein
- boeingUH60 4y agoFrom what I see, she's involved with Neuralink and OpenAI, where Musk doesn't hold direct management roles. It's unlike Tesla, where he’s answerable to public investors about that kind of behaviour. Just Musk running his fiefdom...
- hindsightbias 4y agoWho said they had sex? IVF, twins, triplets, twins again…
- birdyrooster 4y agoIt's not about sex. It's about conflict of interest and the lengths an employee might need to go in order to gain their employers favor. This is incredibly invasive -- highly unethical implicit standards were made.
- ilrwbwrkhv 4y agoRichest man impregnates someone who is hot and willing. Why is this news?
- cyanydeez 4y agoProbably cause, it's a sign that the worst rumors about Tesla are right.
- sometimesjerks 4y agoElon 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.
- ilrwbwrkhv 4y agoHe 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.
- sometimesjerks 4y agoMost HR departments don't approve of managers having sexual relationships (or children!) with their subordinates: it quickly becomes difficult to tell if preferential treatment is happening and presents possible legal problems.
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- birdyrooster 4y agoIn the corporate world, this is completely untenable, unethical behavior because of the conflict of interest that Musk has with her as a subordinate.
- metadat 4y agoUn-paywalled: https://archive.ph/CUnyw https://archive.ph/CUnyw
- entropicgravity 4y agoHigh status woman chose to have her children sired by a very smart, very rich, semi good looking man who is over six feet tall. It's unbelievable.
- dzhiurgis 4y agoClearly he placed some malicious code in the brain implants she was testing
- nunez 4y agoI hope those kids are loved and have awesome lives!
- emptyfile 4y agoQuite disgusting.
- aniken 4y agoWhich part?
- jkqwzsoo 4y agoThe ethics of sleeping with your employees aside (which reflects poorly on both parties), Zilis has also been a public-facing Musk supporter. She defends Musk on Twitter and sure, fine, that’s a reasonable thing for you to do for your employer, especially if you work there for the cause. It’s another thing to bear your employer’s children while defending your employer of criticism and talking about his mission to save the human race. Big cult vibes.
- hackerlight 4y ago"The ethics of sleeping with your employees aside (which reflects poorly on both parties)" It should not. This new culture of no relationships at work is extremely off-putting. Work is one of the best places to meet potential spouses, even if there is a "power differential" between them. Some of the most healthy and happy relationships I've seen have been between people who got together under a so-called "power differential". The cases where it goes wrong (Weinstein) make the news but the majority of outcomes where there was genuine consent don't make the news. I utterly despise the trend we are going towards where more and more organic relationships like this are judged to be morally wrong -- and such judgement is cast without knowing any details whatsoever -- and everyone is being herded into dating apps, being bred algorithmcally and are pitted against others of the same gender into a narcissistic and dystopian performance game. If Elon and Shivon are both willing and consenting, then I say screw the uptight moral busy-bodies in this thread and elsewhere, trying to enforce their in vogue morality on two people who are harming nobody by doing what they've done, and good on them for doing what they both want in their own private lives and ignoring the judgemental onlookers. It's hard to work against unjust social scorn.
- birdyrooster 4y agoThe conflict of interest alone makes this untenable. After this, no one should want to work under Elon Musk knowing his ethical standard.