Elon Musk said late Tuesday he’ll resign as chief executive of Twitter — eventually.
In a tongue-in-cheek tweet, Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, said: “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.”
Musk posted a Twitter poll on Sunday asking users if he should step down. About 17.5 million Twitter users voted, with 57.5% saying Musk should resign. On Monday, he indicated that polls dealing with company policy should only be open to paying Twitter Blue subscribers, rather than the general user base.
In a November court hearing, Musk said he hoped to find a permanent successor as CEO “over time,” but he said Sunday that there was presently “no successor” and that “The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive.”
His tenure at Twitter has been chaotic, with more than half of the staff eliminated and announcements — often later rescinded — of major policy changes with no advance notice, drawing sharp criticism that his decision-making has been capricious and arbitrary.
The chaos has spread to his other major company, Tesla Inc. TSLA,
