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darkknight109 posted...

This is my take on it. Musk got high on his own supply - he fooled himself into thinking he was a genius because he happened to run a couple of very successful companies employing very smart people in cutting edge tech ventures (SpaceX, Tesla, Paypal). Except, from what has come out, each of those companies grew with him and developed their own "Musk Antibodies" - which is to say, people and procedures wholly dedicated to distracting and manipulating Musk into not fucking everything up.

So now he drops himself into an already-established company which has none of those "antibodies" and we see what happens when no one is there to save Musk from himself.

He's not deliberately trying to crash the company, he just has no fucking clue what he's doing and but thinks he does.

I'm not sure where but recently I read about an interview some news website (not sure if CNN or another) had with one of the people who'd worked with Musk on a few projects. His take was that, with the others, Musk had some idea of what he was doing but, to paraphrase what he said, when Musk bought Twitter "he was out of his depth" so to speak in that Musk had no idea what to do with the company or knew anything about social networking itself. It appears that the man was right in that regard.