Very Well, I Shall Be the CEO of Tesla

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that a month earlier, the Tesla board of directors had begun looking for a successor to the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk—presumably someone not as toxic for the company’s brand. Musk immediately disputed the story, declaring on X (in all caps, no less) that it was “deliberately false” and that publishing it was an “extremely bad breach of ethics.” (The company, which declined to provide a statement to the paper, also tweeted that the report was inaccurate.) A report from Newsweek, meanwhile, quoted a prominent Tesla investor who speculated that Musk himself might have been behind the Journal story, hoping to gauge interest from potential CEOs in the position. Whatever the truth of the situation, one thing is undeniable:…

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