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After Twitter debacle, does Elon Musk still want to be the CEO of Tesla?

It hasn't helped that Musk has oscillated from arguing that Twitter is doing better under his leadership, to describing it as in the fast lane toward bankruptcy

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Elon Musk didn’t fare well among 100 of his peers: 98% said he overpaid for Twitter; 79% said he’d become a detriment to the value of the companies he runs.

Craig Trudell | Bloomberg
Elon Musk has said on several occasions lately — on Twitter, from a courtroom stand, on Twitter again, then back at the same court — that he doesn’t want to be a CEO.

He said so before and after he became the chief executive of a fifth company, which appears to have been one too many, at least for Tesla shareholders to stomach. Since April 4, the day Musk disclosed that he’d taken a stake in Twitter, the car and clean-energy company that accounts for a third of his net worth has lost about $749 billion of market value.

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