Elon Musk started looking for a new Twitter CEO before polling the site’s users
by Andrew J. Hawkins from The Verge - All Posts on (#671P1)
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge That poll that Elon Musk posted to Twitter Sunday evening? Asking whether he should stay on as CEO of Twitter or appoint someone else? The one where he said he would abide by the results" no matter how it turned out? The one where nearly 58 percent of participants said, yes, please step down already?
It was probably mostly meaningless. According to CNBC's David Faber, whose reporting is pretty reliable on this kind of stuff, Musk has been actively searching for a replacement even before posting the poll. In fact, that search has been ongoing," Faber writes. How ongoing? Faber doesn't say, but Musk hasn't been exactly shy about describing his tenure at Twitter as only temporary.
Musk hasn't been exactly shy about describing his tenure...