A brief history of Elon Musk sabotaging Matt Levine’s time off
by Elizabeth Lopatto from The Verge - All Posts on (#65788)
My life has not been ruined by having to write about Elon Musk on Saturdays." | Image: Laura Normand / The Verge This story, originally published October 28th, 2022, and updated July 11th, 2023, has been updated again because, well, you are never going to guess what happened.
Matt Levine would like you to know that Elon Musk does not actually ruin all of his vacations. Sure, he was at Sesame Place, the theme park just outside Philadelphia, with his kids when Musk announced his Twitter bid, and then stayed up until midnight that night to get his newsletter, Money Stuff, out. But that was kind of fun! My life has not been ruined by having to write about Elon Musk on Saturdays," the former mergers and acquisitions lawyer told me. And in M&A, everything happens on the weekend.
The main problem, actually, was that he was working on a 40,000-word B...