That level of thoughtlessness is how you immediately find your equity investment under water. "WTF is wrong with you, Elon?" is a reasonable question to be asking, but evidently nobody does.
No one walks in with a fucking a sink to a company dude lol.
Quiet, corporate ways don't result in free advertising.
Every. Single. Time.
Everyone and everything is a show and the trolls have been directors for a while now.
Nothing at all. Please don’t confuse how you do something with what you do.
Reminder: he expressly did not want to spend that kind of money but was forced to after facing a near-certain defeat in Delaware court. I wasn't expecting the events to be mythologized beyond recognition within weeks.
The way you phrased it prepared me for a rebuttal, but you seem to agree that my comment was factual, but disagree with my temporal anchoring?
Signing the purchase agreement is a background to my point[1], and incidentally further strengthens my point: when he signed the agreement, it wasn't apparent that this was setting money on fire until after the bottom fell out of the stock market - which is when Musk started hinting at buyers remorse. None of which points to Musk wasting money just to show that he can (as gp was hinting); this is the mythologizing I am against - making it seem like he's playing 9D chess rather than someone with terrible risk management flailing and throwing stuff onto the walls to see what sticks.
1. One has to start somewhere, otherwise you'll have to go back to the big bang: you chose to start at the time Musk signed purchase agreement, but skipped over his rejecting the board seat, or secretly purchasing 9% of Twitter shares before that. However, this doesn't mean you are "not doing it right" in framing your correction-to-a-correction.
Do you have any experience with the human condition?
However... he does seem to be really really bad at running a company, which does seem a bit inexplicable when he's run several companies succesfully before.