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Surviving Trump • Episode 33 • Series 4: Corporate Power and Control
On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk walked into Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters carrying a bathroom sink. He posted a video. The caption read: “Entering Twitter HQ — let that sink in.” Within hours, he had fired the CEO, the CFO, and the head of legal policy — timed deliberately so the executives couldn’t cash in their stock options. He posted two words: “The bird is freed.”
The business world called it the dumbest deal in history. Investor Ross Gerber called it “the dumbest deal in the history of business.”…
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