Buying Twitter made Musk "king of the sandbox," allowing him to promote free speech, but not at the cost of his own ego.
  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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  • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
    69·
    5 months ago

    I wouldn’t doubt that was his initial motivation for making the suggestions.

    I also remember that he tried to back out of buying Twitter multiple times. While doing so he was pretty public about all the crazy crap he would do with Twitter.

    Despite all that Twitter went to a judge and got them to force Musk to complete the sale. He’s a crappy CEO for Twitter but it’s kind of on the former Twitter leadership for forcing that situation.

    • MammyWhammy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      He offered Twitter more money than the company was worth with no due diligence.

      The leadership of the board could have been sued by shareholders if they didn’t push Elon to actually pay over market value.

      The end goal of any for profit leadership is to make as much money as possible and exit.