You have to hand it to Elon Musk. The man who plumbed the depths of his PayPal fortune to launch SpaceX, a private rocket company, and put up with “production hell” to make Tesla’s first mass-market electric vehicles (EVs),

Elon Musk overpaid for Twitter when he bought it for $44 billion in late 2022, after unsuccessfully trying to renegotiate or renege. Now a new conventional wisdom is emerging: Twitter is a loss leader for the rest of Elon Inc.

Trump also singled-out Mr Musk in his victory speech, spending several minutes praising his rocket firm, Space X. Mr Musk's association with the president-elect also boosted the share price of his electric car maker Tesla - and, with it, his net worth, which now stands at an estimated $290bn.

The candidate largely let the billionaire run his $175 million ground game — a gamble that future candidates could look to emulate.

The suddenly MAGA tycoon is pushing the boundaries of what social platforms (and tycoons) have done in politics.

Billionaire Elon Musk went all-in supporting Donald Trump’s campaign. What will he ask for in return? And how will his influence be felt in the second Trump administration?