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"From: Thomas Jr., Landon To: Jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Elon and you Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018"

"Landon Thomas, Jr. Financial Reporter New York Times"

"For a number of reasons — we are friends, etc. And I will hold true to that -- I will not have a byline on the story."

"So, as your occasional PR adviser this is what I would say: lets get it all out now."

"my first story about you in NY Mag: finding and supporting beautiful minds."

"In doing their reporting they have heard that you have — in the past and quite recently -- spent lots of time with him."

"I think I have said to you that I would not again write a story about you -- or that involves you in a prominent way. For a number of reasons — we are"

"you must have come to know him through The Edge, via Nathan M., Brockman, Minsky and others."