Trending across social media Monday morning is news that Elon Musk may step down from the CEO role he took when he acquired Twitter. Here’s a look at the latest and some candidates who could be named the next CEO of the social media platform.
Since purchasing the company, Musk has upset many Twitter users due to his views on free speech and the banning and unbanning of certain accounts on the platform.
Over the weekend, Musk set up a poll asking if he should step down as the CEO of Twitter. Over 57% of those polled voted yes.
Musk said he would abide by the results of the survey. He previously used polls to ask followers if he should buy Twitter, if he should sell Tesla stock, if Twitter should have an edit button and if the account of former President Donald Trump should be unbanned.
If Musk follows the results of the poll and steps down as CEO of Twitter, here are some potential replacements.
“It can’t be a company. I believe it must be an open-source protocol, funded by a foundation of sorts that doesn’t own the protocol, only advances it,” Dorsey said.
Dorsey has been open recently about wanting to make Twitter open source and may not be open to stepping back into the CEO role. Dorsey is currently the CEO of Block Inc (NYSE:SQ) and was previously criticized for leading two public companies simultaneously.
“Board member, advisor, whatever…you have my sword,” Musk told Calacanis.
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Lex Fridman: Computer scientist and MIT research scientist Lex Fridman has thrown his hat into the ring of potential CEO successors.
“Let me run Twitter for a bit. No salary. All in. Focus on great engineering and increasing the amount of love in the world. Just offering my help in the unlikely case it’s useful,” Fridman tweeted.
Musk replied telling Fridman he “must like pain a lot” to want to be the Twitter CEO.
“One catch: you have to invest your life savings in Twitter and it has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May. Still want the job?” Musk tweeted.
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