"I still really wanted to be a mum and Elon made the offer around that time and I accepted. [He] was encouraging everyone around him at that time to have kids and he'd noticed I did not. He offered to make a donation."
"Zilis has worked as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley for over 15 years and held executive positions at Musk's car company, Tesla, and his neurotechnology firm Neuralink."
"Zilis said she had a 'one-off' romance with Musk about a decade ago but was not romantically involved with Musk around 2020, when Musk made the offer to father her children."
Shivon Zilis testified in a federal courtroom about her relationship with Elon Musk, which resulted in four children. She described Musk's offer to donate sperm, motivated by his encouragement for others to have children. Zilis, a venture capitalist with experience in Musk's companies, became involved with him during her tenure at OpenAI. She clarified that their romantic involvement was brief and not ongoing by 2020, when Musk made the offer. Zilis's testimony is significant in the context of Musk's lawsuit regarding OpenAI's transition to a for-profit model.
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