Elon Musk looking for a Twitter CEO ‘foolish enough to take the job’ | 24CA News
Elon Musk stated late Tuesday that he plans on remaining as Twitter’s CEO till he can discover somebody keen to interchange him within the job.
Musk’s announcement got here after simply over 57 per cent of responses indicated that he ought to step down from the function, in an unscientific ballot the billionaire himself created and promised to abide by the previous weekend.
“I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!” Musk tweeted. “After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.”
Since taking on San Francisco-based Twitter in late October, Musk’s run as CEO has been marked by shortly issued guidelines and insurance policies which have usually been withdrawn or modified quickly after being made public.
He has additionally alienated some buyers in his electrical automobile firm Tesla who’re involved that Twitter is taking an excessive amount of of his consideration.
“The first weeks of Mr. Musk’s Twitter ownership have raised questions about possible violations of securities or other laws, including whether Mr. Musk is funnelling Tesla resources into Twitter,” Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren stated in a letter, made public, to Robyn Denholm, Tesla’s board chair.
Tumultuous first weeks
Some of Musk’s actions have unnerved Twitter advertisers and turned off customers. They embrace shedding half of Twitter’s workforce, letting go contract content material moderators and disbanding a council of belief and security advisors that the corporate shaped in 2016 to deal with hate speech, baby exploitation, suicide, self-harm and different issues on the platform.
Musk, who additionally helms the SpaceX rocket firm, has beforehand acknowledged how troublesome it is going to be to seek out somebody to take over as Twitter CEO.
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Bantering with Twitter followers final Sunday, he stated that the individual changing him “must like pain a lot” to run an organization that he stated has been “in the fast lane to bankruptcy.”
“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor,” Musk tweeted.
As issues stand, Musk would nonetheless retain overwhelming affect over platform as its proprietor. He fired the corporate’s board of administrators quickly after taking management.
