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Placing money alongside the world’s richest man should be an easy pitch. But tech heavyweights backing Musk’s $44 billion Twitter bid with $7 billion still leave a hole and checks from smaller investors suggest he was scraping the barrel, writes @rob_cyran reut.rs/37oePJy

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