
Who should be the next CEO of Twitter?
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The following is a free preview from last week’s Command Line, my new weekly newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation:
Elon Musk has said he will find a new CEO for Twitter after users voted for him to leave. But who would, in his own words, be “foolish enough to take the job”?
It’s a question I’ve been posing in conversations over the past week. Based on my checks with people who would know, Musk doesn’t appear to be running a formal search yet. And given his propensity to ~~lie~~ go back on his word, he might not try to find someone. The matter is complicated by his saying that, even after finding a CEO, he will still run the “software & servers teams.” That’s basically the whole company.
For what it’s worth, I do think...