Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
by muscator on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:29PM
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This is very true, and another thing is, he wasn't even a founder of Tesla. He swooped in about a year after it was founded with wads of investment cash, and with his now well-known egotistical drive, decided to make the company all about him. When of course all the actual work was being done by the experts rather than this arrogant dilettante who did more to impede their work than effectively manage it.
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Re:Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
by mlindner on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:21AM
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This isn't true. The employee account was 2 or 3 (depending on accounts) at the time when he supplied almost their entire funding round after basically no one else would, and continued to supply funding rounds. Saying "in about a year after it was founded" implies that they had done real work in that year when in fact they couldn't even pay their own salaries. The company would have ended right there, just like so many other "two guys and some incorporation papers" companies.
Musk invested in the company, became chairman of the board and quickly became active in their normal everyday operations.