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Elon Musk Says He's Found a New CEO for Twitter, a Woman Who Will Start in 6 Weeks

posted by janrinok on Sunday May 14, @05:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the fired-his-poor-dog dept.

upstart writes:

Elon Musk says he's found a new CEO for Twitter, a woman who will start in 6 weeks:

Elon Musk said Thursday he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it's now called.

He did not name the person but she will be starting in about six weeks.

Musk, who bought Twitter last fall and has been running it since, has been insisting he is not the company's permanent CEO.

The Tesla billionaire said in a tweet Thursday that his role will transition to being Twitter's executive chairman and chief technology officer.

Musk has been saying for nearly six months that he plans to find a new CEO for San Francisco-based Twitter.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Sunday May 14, @10:26PM

    by Thexalon (636) Subscriber Badge on Sunday May 14, @10:26PM (#1306323)

    I'm reasonably certain she'll get the job.

    Let's say you're Elon Musk. And you've bought a company for far more than it was worth, and mismanaged it so badly that your mismanagement is a regular joke for comedy writers. You're probably on your way to Twitter going belly-up.

    The last thing you'd want is to have nobody else to blame it on. That would be the final nail in the coffin for your reputation as some kind of genius. So instead, you'll hire someone else to act as a fall gal, and picking a woman for added bonus points that any criticism of Twitter management will now be met with "So you're a misogynist now? Since when were women not able to be CEOs?" (If you don't think this will happen, or will work, pay attention to the rhetoric around Carly Fiorina's tenure at HP).

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