2022 Tesla AI DAY was held at the same time as an update on another big Elon Musk story. A Delaware court has released a series of chats between Elon Musk and Twitter deal associates, spanning from January to June 2022 and numbering more than 400. With a large number of private chats exposed, the journey of how Elon Musk lost interest in acquiring Twitter step by step was also revealed –
The many details under the table of this great drama can also be glimpsed by the eating public.
From sympathy to relationship breakdown, only 6 days
The first key figure, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is in Elon Musk’s phone, and his note is “jack jack”.
The following conversation took place on March 26, before Elon Musk announced his acquisition of a 9.2% stake in Twitter.
After the acquisition was completed on April 3, Elon Musk became the largest individual shareholder of Twitter, and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal entered into a happy partnership with him.
In other conversations between the two, they both see themselves as engineering types who have been pushed into management positions and seem to be somewhat sympathetic.
Two days later, on April 5, Elon Musk had a wave of phone calls with Jack Dorsey. On the same day, he announced that he would join the Twitter board.
Everything seemed to be going well, but things took a turn for the worse.
The obvious turning point came on April 9, when Elon Musk publicly asked, “Are Twitter dying because most of the ten accounts with the most followers are not active?”
The newly minted majority shareholder’s move caused a public outcry, and Agrawal immediately issued a long private post blaming Elon Musk.
And Elon Musk immediately said he would no longer join Twitter’s board of directors, and plans to take Twitter private took shape at that point.
The relationship between the two quickly broke down in just six days.
By May, Elon Musk began to delay the deal and doubted the true number of Twitter users
With the two communicating publicly again, there was only one emoji left to say.
The back story, as we all know, is the six-month-long repeated tug-of-war and tug-of-war.
According to the latest news, Elon Musk’s testimony on the Twitter case was again postponed to October 6-7.
