Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla in New York, who earlier became Twitter’s largest individual shareholder, has opted to leave the social media company’s board of directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Sunday night, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal posted the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Elon’s appointment to the board was set to take effect on April 9, however Elon announced the same morning that he would not be joining the board.” “I feel this is for the best,” Agrawal said in a tweet. Whether or whether our stockholders are on our Board, we have always valued their opinion. Elon is our largest shareholder, and we will continue to listen to his suggestions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Musk’s decision not to communicate with the Twitter board was verified by a Twitter interviewer, who referenced to Agrawal’s remark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The development strategy comes less than a week after Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, said that he had bought a more than 9% interest in the firm, and Twitter (TWTR) announced that Musk will be appointed to its board of directors for a period ending in 2024 in a regulatory filing. Musk and Twitter’s leadership have both expressed enthusiasm for his appointment to the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’m looking forward to working with Parag & the Twitter board to bring big changes to Twitter in the coming months!” Musk tweeted on Tuesday. Musk and Agrawal would make a “amazing team,” according to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. After his initial purchase was made public, Twitter’s shares soared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Musk agreed not to own more than 14.9 percent of the company’s stock during his stint on the board as part of his agreement to join. Some corporate governance experts speculated that the film was intended to limit Musk’s power at the corporation. That restriction is no longer in effect, allowing Musk to possibly take a more aggressive posture by purchasing more of Twitter’s stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Agrawal said the firm’s board “believed that having Elon as a fiduciary of the business, where he, like other board members, has to act in the best interests of the company and all our shareholders, was the best road ahead” in a tweet late Sunday night revealing Musk’s reversal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Musk would have had to cease talking about his thoughts on Twitter if the corporate board team shared their proposals for the firm discreetly. Musk’s decision to leave the board of directors came after he posted a series of tweets about the company over the weekend, including one in which he shared an idea for removing the “w” from “Twitter” \u2014 an apparent crude joke that has since been deleted \u2014 and another in which he asked if Twitter is “dying” because some of its most-followed accounts don’t tweet very often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In our judgement, the Twitter Board and Musk were unable to reach an agreement over Musk’s public communications (different polls) through Twitter since he likely needed to take a more back seat\/quiet stance as part of joining the Board,” Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in an investor note on Monday. Musk’s relationship with Twitter may now become “a ‘Game of Thrones struggle between Musk and Twitter, with the high possibility that Elon takes a more hostile position toward Twitter and further grows his active ownership in the firm,” according to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s unclear what kind of Twitter converts Musk was looking for \u2014 or is still looking for. Musk recently said on Twitter that the site doesn’t allow enough free expression and that it should open source its algorithm. Last week, he asked his followers whether they “want an edit button,” a long-standing, if isolated, feature request from many Twitter users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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