Elon Musk “gets a lot of pleasure and utility out of tweeting and wants it to be optimized for his use,” the journalist matt_levine says.
for forty-four billion dollars. Musk, the C.E.O. of Tesla and the richest man on earth, plans to take the social-media company private, and has said that he wants Twitter to adhere more closely to the principles of free speech, which, in a statement, Musk called “the bedrock of a functioning democracy.” Musk himself is a frequent tweeter, and it is assumed that he will continue to use the platform, and potentially reinstate the.
Tesla is a company, a relatively small car company, that makes good high-end electric cars, right? And the stock-market value of Tesla, which makes Elon Musk the richest person in the world, comes from a lot of extreme optimism about Tesla’s future ability to make more cars and become the dominant player in car-making as cars become more electric. Also, he’s just, like, a sort of futurist visionary—he’s building tunnels that he seems to think will be the future of transportation.
I think it’s hard to imitate him, but I think people are, and I think that the classic example in the last five years or so has been the rise of meme stocks: companies like AMC andgot very high market valuations and raised a lot of money through social media, popularity, and game memes. Adam Aron is the C.E.O. of AMC, and he’s this Harvard Business School graduate, a guy who’s worked at traditional corporate jobs.
From a corporate-finance perspective, the idea is that you buy Twitter and then it’ll be a private company and he’ll just control it. So he doesn’t need to present a business plan to, for instance, the board of directors of Twitter or the shareholders of Twitter. He can just say the business line: you take the cash and go away, and then it’s my company to control. So he said some things. They’re not binding on him. If he owns the company, he owns the company, and he can kind of do what he wants.
This seems like an issue for tech companies generally, but how does that manifest itself with a company that is international? Obviously, Twitter exists in lots of countries that have fewer free-speech protections than we do, and often governments ask social-media companies to crack down on speech that they don’t like.
Since then, there’s been a lot of bickering about that settlement. He’s a smart guy who doesn’t seem to talk to lawyers before he does stuff. Can the S.E.C. stop this takeover? I don’t think so. I think that, from a securities-law perspective, the S.E.C. is in the business of protecting investors and letting them take this deal if the deal is agreed upon, and that is the right thing for the S.E.C. to do. I don’t know if anyone else in the government could stop this.
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