Why some tech CEOs are rooting for Elon Musk
by Casey Newton from The Verge - All Posts on (#66A7S)
Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images After a long weekend away, today let's talk about the largely positive reception that Elon Musk's radical remaking of Twitter is getting from tech CEOs - and whether those views are likely to change if the fight that Musk is picking with Apple erodes even more value from his $44 billion purchase.
The CEO's revengeLast week, Musk publicly mocked Twitter's somewhat notorious Stay Woke" T-shirts. The shirts, which the company produced in 2016 in response to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, were considered suspect even at the time. In those days, it was the left rolling its eyes - particularly after then-CEO Jack Dorsey wore the shirt during a Code Conference interview, giving the impression that a phrase that had...