It’s funny that the first paragraph of the letter says they believed it was best for Elon to join the board.
Then the second paragraph says that Elon declined to join the board and they believe it was also for the best.
Then the second paragraph says that Elon declined to join the board and they believe it was also for the best.
There is some kind of irony in a communication platform offering a presser that contains so little information and so many words...particularly as the platform limits the number of characters that users can communicate.
Really earning that $30m/year. I would fuck up an important press release for half that price.
The irony of them sharing it as an image!
Anyway; I am not an expert, but being on the board of director of a company come with specific responsibilities, like an obligation not to trash talk the company in public forums.
From an external point of view it looks like Elon might prefer the stick to the carrot in relation to changing how twitter works.
Both Elon and the CEO know this but the board all but must offer a seat to the biggest shareholder. So the best thing happened for everyone, Elon was blessed with acceptance and the board did not gain a member prone to PR chaos.
From this we can deduce that the destination of the "the best path forward" was for him to leave the board ("the best").
Seems he already knew that much at least
If he doesn’t want to, that is also best. Whatever he wants is best because he is the biggest shareholder.
Elon I would imagine is way too busy with his other concerns to be distracted by a social media company, even though at the moment it does seem to carry an oversized amount of influence.
And Elon's brand is probably too randomly 'firecracker' for a company that's probably already attracting scrutiny from governments across the world due to the above mentioned outsized influence it has on discourse and opinion.
Both are completely valid and do not contradict one another. And it's quite normal and acceptable to change your mind after you get more information.
I think Foo is true. Let's see! I think Foo is not true after seeing new facts.
The way I understand it, they believed it was best for twitter (since as a fiduciary he would 'have to act in the interests of the company)
The second paragraph applied to the time after they performed the background check.
Uh, oh, Spaghetti-Os!