It’s long overdue, but perhaps it’s time people stopped fawning over Elon Musk and introduced a little skepticism into their appraisals of his business acumen.
Musk has been noticeable in his silence over the last two months or so, only breaking that most welcome of peace with an idiotic Twitter poll asking for Ukraine to capitulate to Russia.
The timing seemed odd, almost random, considering Ukraine’s recent successes in reclaiming its territory, and Putin is under pressure both at home and abroad.
But, three things happened this week, which raised Musk’s need for deflection: One, Tesla missed its numbers, big-time. So bad, he resorted to bribery, offering employees of the Shanghai Giga plant triple overtime to abandon their Golden Week vacation plans to complete Teslas.
Two, as part of the discovery phase of the Twitter acquisition trial, scores of texts between Musk and many big tech honchos and media types — Jack Dorsey, Larry Ellison, and Joe Rogan, to name a few—were released, shining a light on remarkably pedestrian, and almost high school-like behavior amongst these august captains of industry.
And, finally, Musk blinked.
After months of verbal abuse, false promises, unsupported allegations, and empty threats, he squirreled a letter to the Twitter…
