Taking a job as CEO of a troubled company… where the owner is famously mercurial and confident… and said owner REPORTS to you… and said owner RUNS ENGINEERING despite not having directly run a software team in, what, 25 years?… That would indeed be a strange choice for someone well qualified
I don't believe there will be a new CEO. Elon is deflecting quite a bit: 1) questioning the legitimacy of the poll 2) stating that no one is qualified to run twitter.
I would say he's correct in one sense about the media: everything they publish about him is fake because he's a liar that can't be trusted.
I agree with you that it would insane for a CEO to take the job. What would even be the purpose of the CEO? Elon would continue to destroy advertiser relationships and make decisions without consulting the CEO.
"I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams."
He'll still be the owner and run part of everyday business. Whatever policies might change in the future, monetization, app features, funding, hiring or firing I think people will assume Elon initated those.
> I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!
Who'd want the job as CEO? You'd be a puppet CEO at best, constantly being told what to do by Musk and constantly undermined by his latest antics and pronouncements.
What makes you think anyone is going to take the job, or that Musk is even serious about finding a replacement?
He's done everything possible to make to make sure no one wants it, not least of all promising to saddle the new CEO with an utterly incompetent, can't fire CTO. (But also pointing out how unattractive the job is in other ways, given that Twitter—by Musk’s description—has been hurtling toward bankruptcy since his bid for it became public, thar whoever took it would also be expected to make a sizable investment into Twitter, etc.)
> I hope this twitter drama distraction doesnt deviate from the free speech focus
I think if there is one thing that is clear from all this then it is that unrestricted free speech and social media are fundamentally at odds with each other, and that the bulk of the people advocating for unrestricted free speech are doing so from malicious intent rather than because they are so concerned about government repression.
After taking a poll if he should continue working at Twitter. The poll was in favor of him continuing. He did not honor the poll despite using the same language as Musk to say the poll is binding.
For typical CEO compensation, probably including a healthy severance when it inevitably doesn't work out pretty quickly? I mean, why not? But if it's some kind of Musk $20/hour CEO, then of course not.
Musk suggested Lex Fridman would need to plow his life savings into Twitter to become CEO. It doesn't sound like Elon is going to be offering anything like the impressive stock compensation package that he got at Tesla. He wants someone that is going to sacrifice for his vision.
Jared will not last a week with all these Elon antics. Musk will stick his d--- into absolutely every decision. Kushner does not need the grief for a measly modern CEO salary.
One has to pity the fool that takes the job of the CEO but will forever be beholden to that one technical manager who (checks notes) owns the company. Anyone recall the comical President Medvedev and PM Putin bit?
